Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist * Package name : r-cran-maps Version : 2.0-11 Upstream Author : Ray Brownrigg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://cran.r-project.org/ * License : GPL Description : GNU R support for producing geographic maps
This package provides facilities for easily producing maps based on data sets in the GNU R statistical computing environment. The r-cran-maps package includes map data for the United States (including state and county-level maps), New Zealand, and a world map; additional maps (including a higher-resolution world map) are available in the suggested r-cran-mapdata package. The suggested, non-free r-cran-mapproj package adds facilities for calculating geographic projections, which are used by mapmakers to compensate for the inaccuracies inherent in projecting a spheroid's surface onto a two-dimensional plane. I also intend to package two associated packages: r-cran-mapdata and r-cran-mapproj; due to license restrictions that limit its use and distribution to only non-commercial entities, r-cran-mapproj (which is not essential for the functioning of the other two packages) will be uploaded to non-free. -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable Architecture: i386 Kernel: Linux satellite 2.6.1-rc1 #1 Sat Jan 3 21:10:18 EST 2004 i686 Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8