GIS-related packages in R:

 ade4 -- Analysis of Environmental Data : Exploratory and Euclidean methods 
in Environmental sciences

adehabitat -- Analysis of habitat selection by animals

fields -- Tools for spatial data

GRASS -- Interface between GRASS 5.0 geographical information system and R

Mapdata -- Extra Map Databases 

Mapproj -- Map Projections 

Maps -- Draw Geographical Maps 

Maptools -- tools for reading and handling shapefiles 

Maptree -- Mapping, pruning, and graphing tree models 

PBSmapping -- PBS Mapping 2

Shapefiles -- Read and Write ESRI Shapefiles

Sp -- classes and methods for spatial data

Spatial -- Functions for Kriging and Point Pattern Analysis 

Spatstat -- Spatial Point Pattern analysis, model-fitting and simulation

Spdep -- Spatial dependence: weighting schemes, statistics and models

 etc.


On 7/13/05, m p <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: 
> 
> Hello,
> is there a package in R that would allow map drawing:
> coastlines, country/state boundaries, maybe
> topography,
> rivers etc?
> Thanks for any guidance,
> Mark
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