toponym: Analyze and Visualize Toponyms

A tool to analyze and visualize toponym distributions. This package is intended as an interface to the GeoNames data. A regular expression filters data and in a second step a map is created displaying all locations in the filtered data set. The functions make data and plots available for further analysis—either within R or in a chosen directory. Users can select regions within countries, provide coordinates to define regions, or specify a region within the package to restrict the data selection to that region or compare regions with the remainder of countries. This package relies on the R packages 'geodata' for map data and 'ggplot2' for plotting purposes. For more information on the study of toponyms, see Wichmann & Chevallier (2025) <doi:10.5195/names.2025.2616>.

Version:	2.0.1
Depends:	R (≥ 4.1)
Imports:	geodata, ggplot2, grDevices, sf, spatstat.geom, spatstat.utils, stats, terra, utils
Published:	2026-04-13
DOI:	10.32614/CRAN.package.toponym (may not be active yet)
Author:	Lennart Chevallier [aut, cre], Søren Wichmann [aut]
Maintainer:	Lennart Chevallier <mail at lchevallier.de>
BugReports:	https://github.com/Lennart05/toponym/issues
License:	GPL (≥ 3)
URL:	https://github.com/Lennart05/toponym
NeedsCompilation:	no
Citation:	toponym citation info
Materials:	README, NEWS
CRAN checks:	toponym results

Documentation:

Reference manual:

toponym.html , toponym.pdf

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Package source:	toponym_2.0.1.tar.gz
Windows binaries:	r-devel: not available, r-release: toponym_2.0.1.zip, r-oldrel: not available
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