00 GIS Packages

http://cran.r-project.org/web/views/Spatial.html.

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maptools: Tools for reading and handling spatial objects

sp: classes and methods for spatial data

A package that provides classes and methods for spatial data. The classes document where the spatial location information resides, for 2D or 3D data. Utility functions are provided, e.g. for plotting data as 
maps, spatial selection, as well as methods for retrieving coordinates, for subsetting, print, summary, etc.

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Importing/exporting data	
RArcInfo, rgdal, maps, spgrass6, GRASS, ncdf4
	
Data cleaning and manipulation	
sp, maptools, PBSmapping
	
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Statistical analysis	
spatstat 
gstat 
geoR 
spgwr 
splancs

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