Sustainable Transport Planning

Tools for transport planning with an emphasis on spatial transport data and non-motorized modes. The package was originally developed to support the 'Propensity to Cycle Tool', a publicly available strategic cycle network planning tool (Lovelace et al. 2017) , but has since been extended to support public transport routing and accessibility analysis (Moreno-Monroy et al. 2017) and routing with locally hosted routing engines such as 'OSRM' (Lowans et al. 2023) . The main functions are for creating and manipulating geographic "desire lines" from origin-destination (OD) data (building on the 'od' package); calculating routes on the transport network locally and via interfaces to routing services such as < https://cyclestreets.net/> (Desjardins et al. 2021) ; and calculating route segment attributes such as bearing. The package implements the 'travel flow aggregration' method described in Morgan and Lovelace (2020) and the 'OD jittering' method described in Lovelace et al. (2022) . Further information on the package's aim and scope can be found in the vignettes and in a paper in the R Journal (Lovelace and Ellison 2018) , and in a paper outlining the landscape of open source software for geographic methods in transport planning (Lovelace, 2021) .

R Interface to 'Apache Tika'

Extract text or metadata from over a thousand file types, using Apache Tika < https://tika.apache.org/>. Get either plain text or structured XHTML content.

Downloads and Organizes Financial Data from Yahoo Finance

Facilitates download of financial data from Yahoo Finance < https://finance.yahoo.com/>, a vast repository of stock price data across multiple financial exchanges. The package offers a local caching system and support for parallel computation.

Residuals from Partial Regressions

Creates a data frame with the residuals of partial regressions of the main explanatory variable and the variable of interest. This method follows the Frisch-Waugh-Lovell theorem, as explained in Lovell (2008) .

Interface to the Greek National Data Bank for Hydrometeorological Information

R interface to the Greek National Data Bank for Hydrological and Meteorological Information. It covers Hydroscope's data sources and provides functions to transliterate, translate and download them into tidy dataframes.

Download Data from the European Social Survey on the Fly

Download data from the European Social Survey directly from their website < http://www.europeansocialsurvey.org/>. There are two families of functions that allow you to download and interactively check all countries and rounds available.

Taxonomic Information from Around the Web

Interacts with a suite of web application programming interfaces (API) for taxonomic tasks, such as getting database specific taxonomic identifiers, verifying species names, getting taxonomic hierarchies, fetching downstream and upstream taxonomic names, getting taxonomic synonyms, converting scientific to common names and vice versa, and more. Some of the services supported include 'NCBI E-utilities' (< https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK25501/>), 'Encyclopedia of Life' (< https://eol.org/docs/what-is-eol/data-services>), 'Global Biodiversity Information Facility' (< https://techdocs.gbif.org/en/openapi/>), and many more. Links to the API documentation for other supported services are available in the documentation for their respective functions in this package.

Manage Data from Cardiopulmonary Exercise Testing

Import, process, summarize and visualize raw data from metabolic carts. See Robergs, Dwyer, and Astorino (2010) for more details on data processing.

A Unifying API for Calling the 'Unity' '3D' Video Game Engine

Functions for the creation and manipulation of scenes and objects within the 'Unity' '3D' video game engine (< https://unity.com/>). Specific focuses include the creation and import of terrain data and 'GameObjects' as well as scene management.

Mechanistic Metacommunity Simulator

Flexible, mechanistic, and spatially explicit simulator of metacommunities. It extends our previous package - 'rangr' (see < https://github.com/ropensci/rangr>), which implemented a mechanistic virtual species simulator integrating population dynamics and dispersal. The 'mrangr' package adds the ability to simulate multiple species interacting through an asymmetric matrix of pairwise relationships, allowing users to model all types of biotic interactions — competitive, facilitative, or neutral — within spatially explicit virtual environments. This work was supported by the National Science Centre, Poland, grant no. 2018/29/B/NZ8/00066 and the Poznań Supercomputing and Networking Centre (grant no. pl0090-01).