Generate Random 'WKT' or 'GeoJSON'

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

'NoSQL' Database Connector

Simplified JSON document database access and manipulation, providing a common API across supported 'NoSQL' databases 'Elasticsearch', 'CouchDB', 'MongoDB' as well as 'SQLite/JSON1', 'PostgreSQL', and 'DuckDB'.

Interface to 'DigitalOcean'

Provides a set of functions for interacting with the 'DigitalOcean' API < https://www.digitalocean.com/>, including creating images, destroying them, rebooting, getting details on regions, and available images.

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.

'Microsoft Academic' API Client

The 'Microsoft Academic Knowledge' API provides programmatic access to scholarly articles in the 'Microsoft Academic Graph' (< https://academic.microsoft.com/>). Includes methods matching all 'Microsoft Academic' API routes, including search, graph search, text similarity, and interpret natural language query string.

Semantically Rich I/O for the 'NeXML' Format

Provides access to phyloinformatic data in 'NeXML' format. The package should add new functionality to R such as the possibility to manipulate 'NeXML' objects in more various and refined way and compatibility with 'ape' objects.

Interface to the 'Open Tree of Life' API

An interface to the 'Open Tree of Life' API to retrieve phylogenetic trees, information about studies used to assemble the synthetic tree, and utilities to match taxonomic names to 'Open Tree identifiers'. The 'Open Tree of Life' aims at assembling a comprehensive phylogenetic tree for all named species.

Humane Interface to Amazon Web Services

An opinionated interface to Amazon Web Services < https://aws.amazon.com>, with functions for interacting with 'IAM' (Identity and Access Management), 'S3' (Simple Storage Service), 'RDS' (Relational Data Service), Redshift, and Billing. Lower level functions ('aws_' prefix) are for do it yourself workflows, while higher level functions ('six_' prefix) automate common tasks.

Search 'Vertnet', a 'Database' of Vertebrate Specimen Records

Retrieve, map and summarize data from the 'VertNet.org' archives (< https://vertnet.org/>). Functions allow searching by many parameters, including 'taxonomic' names, places, and dates. In addition, there is an interface for conducting spatially delimited searches, and another for requesting large 'datasets' via email.

Get Silhouettes of Organisms from PhyloPic

Work with the PhyloPic Web Service (< http://api-docs.phylopic.org/v2/>) to fetch silhouette images of organisms. Includes functions for adding silhouettes to both base R plots and ggplot2 plots.