General Purpose R Interface to 'Solr'

Provides a set of functions for querying and parsing data from 'Solr' (< https://solr.apache.org/>) 'endpoints' (local and remote), including search, 'faceting', 'highlighting', 'stats', and 'more like this'. In addition, some functionality is included for creating, deleting, and updating documents in a 'Solr' 'database'.

'NatureServe' Interface

Interface to 'NatureServe' (< https://www.natureserve.org/>). Includes methods to get data, image metadata, search taxonomic names, and make maps.

Connector to 'CouchDB'

Provides an interface to the 'NoSQL' database 'CouchDB' (< http://couchdb.apache.org>). Methods are provided for managing databases within 'CouchDB', including creating/deleting/updating/transferring, and managing documents within databases. One can connect with a local 'CouchDB' instance, or a remote 'CouchDB' databases such as 'Cloudant'. Documents can be inserted directly from vectors, lists, data.frames, and 'JSON'. Targeted at 'CouchDB' v2 or greater.

Directory of Open Access Journals Client

Client for the Directory of Open Access Journals ('DOAJ') (< https://doaj.org/>). API documentation at < https://doaj.org/api/v1/docs>. Methods included for working with all 'DOAJ' API routes: fetch article information by identifier, search for articles, fetch journal information by identifier, and search for journals.

Interface to the 'Orcid.org' API

Client for the 'Orcid.org' API (< https://orcid.org/>). Functions included for searching for people, searching by 'DOI', and searching by 'Orcid' 'ID'.

Client for the Comprehensive Knowledge Archive Network ('CKAN') API

Client for 'CKAN' API (< https://ckan.org/>). Includes interface to 'CKAN' 'APIs' for search, list, show for packages, organizations, and resources. In addition, provides an interface to the 'datastore' API.

Classes for 'GeoJSON'

Classes for 'GeoJSON' to make working with 'GeoJSON' easier. Includes S3 classes for 'GeoJSON' classes with brief summary output, and a few methods such as extracting and adding bounding boxes, properties, and coordinate reference systems; working with newline delimited 'GeoJSON'; and serializing to/from 'Geobuf' binary 'GeoJSON' format.

Convert Between 'WKT' and 'GeoJSON'

Convert 'WKT' to 'GeoJSON' and 'GeoJSON' to 'WKT'. Functions included for converting between 'GeoJSON' to 'WKT', creating both 'GeoJSON' features, and non-features, creating 'WKT' from R objects (e.g., lists, data.frames, vectors), and linting 'WKT'.

Generate Random 'WKT' or 'GeoJSON'

Generate random positions (latitude/longitude), Well-known text ('WKT') points or polygons, or 'GeoJSON' points or polygons.

Client for the 'DataCite' API

Client for the web service methods provided by 'DataCite' (< https://www.datacite.org/>), including functions to interface with their 'RESTful' search API. The API is backed by 'Elasticsearch', allowing expressive queries, including faceting.