Classes and Methods for Spatial Data R package sp version 2.2-3 CRAN Task View: Spatial (https://CRAN.R-project.org/view=Spatial) CRAN Task View: SpatioTemporal (https://CRAN.R-project.org/view=SpatioTemporal) 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. From this version, 'rgdal', 'maptools', and 'rgeos' are no longer used at all, see <https://r-spatial.org/r/2023/05/15/evolution4.html> for details. Software Depends: R (>= 3.5.0), methods Imports: utils, stats, graphics, grDevices, lattice, grid Suggests: RColorBrewer, gstat, deldir, knitr, maps, mapview, rmarkdown, sf, terra, raster Edzer Pebesma <edzer.pebesma@uni-muenster.de> Comprehensive R Archive Network (CRAN) Edzer Pebesma [aut, cre], Roger Bivand [aut], Barry Rowlingson [ctb], Virgilio Gomez-Rubio [ctb], Robert Hijmans [ctb], Michael Sumner [ctb], Don MacQueen [ctb], Jim Lemon [ctb], Finn Lindgren [ctb], Josh O'Brien [ctb], Joseph O'Rourke [ctb], Patrick Hausmann [ctb], Sebastian Meyer [ctb] GPL (>= 2) 2026-07-19 application/tgz https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=sp doi:10.32614/CRAN.package.sp