Hi, I have submitted the package maptools (the file is maptools-0.1a.zip). The archive contains the source ready to compile. I have tested everything on windows 98 and NT and haven't found any major bugs (yet). It should work on lin/unix as well but I don't have easy access to a machine to test it. Of interest might be the functions dbf.read and dbf.write. Also there is a function to read ESRI shapefiles, which is stored as a map object. I am still developing the map object, at the moment it is far too bulky, and I think i could make it a lot more elegant using attributes. Suggestions would be very very welcome. I am planing to implement quadtree indexing, so that map objects can be used for spatial statistics (range searching for building connectivity matrices). One thing I noticed is that the polygon function cannot handle wierd cases such as holes, I can work on that if no one else is. Lastly there is ca color ramp function. I am planning to implement a more sophisticated one with interpolation in the color cube between break points. Is there a way to get the rgb values for all the colors listed when colors() is typed? -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- r-devel mailing list -- Read http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~hornik/R/R-FAQ.html Send "info", "help", or "[un]subscribe" (in the "body", not the subject !) To: r-devel-request@stat.math.ethz.ch _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._