crstools: Tools to Work with Projections

Choose the appropriate map projection for a given application, visualise the resulting distortion, and georeference data from unknown projections. The full functionalities of the package are described in Pozzi et al. (2026) <doi:10.31223/X5K17P> (pre-print).

Version: 1.0.0
Depends: R (≥ 3.5.0)
Imports: sf, ggplot2, terra, cli, jpeg, rlang
Suggests: testthat (≥ 3.0.0), knitr, rmarkdown, pastclim, rnaturalearth, rnaturalearthdata, tidyterra, svglite, spelling
Published: 2026-03-19
DOI: 10.32614/CRAN.package.crstools (may not be active yet)
Author: Andrea Manica ORCID iD [aut, cre], Andrea Pozzi [aut], Cecilia Padilla-Iglesias [aut], Evie Carter [aut], Michela Leonardi [aut], Aramish Fatima [aut], Ondrej Pelanek [aut], Nile Stephenson [aut], Margherita Colucci [aut], Dominik C Jud [aut], Cassandra Gunasekaram [aut]
Maintainer: Andrea Manica <am315 at cam.ac.uk>
License: GPL (≥ 3)
NeedsCompilation: no
Language: en-GB
Materials: README, NEWS
CRAN checks: crstools results

Documentation:

Reference manual: crstools.html , crstools.pdf
Vignettes: crstools (source, R code)
Georeference an image (source, R code)

Downloads:

Package source: crstools_1.0.0.tar.gz
Windows binaries: r-devel: not available, r-release: not available, r-oldrel: not available
macOS binaries: r-release (arm64): not available, r-oldrel (arm64): crstools_1.0.0.tgz, r-release (x86_64): not available, r-oldrel (x86_64): not available

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