CShapes Dataset and Utilities CRAN Task View: Spatial (http://CRAN.R-project.org/view=Spatial) Package for CShapes, a GIS dataset of country boundaries (1946-2008). Includes functions for data extraction and the computation of distances matrices and -lists. Software Depends: R (>= 2.8.0), sp, maptools, rJava Nils B. Weidmann <nils.weidmann@gmail.com>, Kristian Skrede Gleditsch <ksg@essex.ac.uk> Nils B. Weidmann <nils.weidmann@gmail.com>, Doreen Kuse <doreen.kuse@gmail.com>, Kristian Skrede Gleditsch <ksg@essex.ac.uk> GPL (>= 2) 2011-06-27 application/tgz http://CRAN.R-project.org/package=cshapes