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diff --git a/gnu/packages/cran.scm b/gnu/packages/cran.scm
index 0b54ed0c0f..12f848974c 100644
--- a/gnu/packages/cran.scm
+++ b/gnu/packages/cran.scm
@@ -3820,3 +3820,31 @@ without explicit decompression, and fast import packages are used where
appropriate. An additional convenience function, @code{convert}, provides a
simple method for converting between file types.")
(license license:gpl2)))
+
+(define-public r-maptools
+ (package
+ (name "r-maptools")
+ (version "0.9-2")
+ (source
+ (origin
+ (method url-fetch)
+ (uri (cran-uri "maptools" version))
+ (sha256
+ (base32
+ "075lmb3b62171cw2dg8fv1vwmvfzg39r1ji7jwb8s5k9dz88ry1v"))))
+ (build-system r-build-system)
+ (propagated-inputs
+ `(("r-foreign" ,r-foreign)
+ ("r-lattice" ,r-lattice)
+ ("r-sp" ,r-sp)))
+ (home-page "http://r-forge.r-project.org/projects/maptools/")
+ (synopsis "Tools for reading and handling spatial objects")
+ (description
+ "This package provides a set of tools for manipulating and reading
+geographic data, in particular ESRI Shapefiles. It includes binary access to
+GSHHG shoreline files. The package also provides interface wrappers for
+exchanging spatial objects with other R packages.")
+ ;; The C source files from shapelib are released under the Expat license.
+ ;; The R code is released under GPL version 2 or later.
+ (license (list license:gpl2+
+ license:expat))))