3D Visualization Using OpenGL

Provides medium to high level functions for 3D interactive graphics, including functions modelled on base graphics (plot3d(), etc.) as well as functions for constructing representations of geometric objects (cube3d(), etc.). Output may be on screen using OpenGL, or to various standard 3D file formats including WebGL, PLY, OBJ, STL as well as 2D image formats, including PNG, Postscript, SVG, PGF.

Read and write JPEG images

This package provides an easy and simple way to read, write and display bitmap images stored in the JPEG format. It can read and write both files and in-memory raw vectors.

Download Files over HTTP and HTTPS

Provides a wrapper for the download.file function, making it possible to download files over HTTPS on Windows, Mac OS X, and other Unix-like platforms. The 'RCurl' package provides this functionality (and much more) but can be difficult to install because it must be compiled with external dependencies. This package has no external dependencies, so it is much easier to install.

Evaluate Function Calls on HPC Schedulers (LSF, SGE, SLURM, PBS/Torque)

Evaluate arbitrary function calls using workers on HPC schedulers in single line of code. All processing is done on the network without accessing the file system. Remote schedulers are supported via SSH.

Cross-Platform Perl Based R Function to Create Excel 2003 (XLS) and Excel 2007 (XLSX) Files

Cross-platform Perl based R function to create Excel 2003 (XLS) and Excel 2007 (XLSX) files from one or more data frames. Each data frame will be written to a separate named worksheet in the Excel spreadsheet. The worksheet name will be the name of the data frame it contains or can be specified by the user.

A Swiss-Army Knife for Data I/O

Streamlined data import and export by making assumptions that the user is probably willing to make: 'import()' and 'export()' determine the data format from the file extension, reasonable defaults are used for data import and export, web-based import is natively supported (including from SSL/HTTPS), compressed files can be read directly, and fast import packages are used where appropriate. An additional convenience function, 'convert()', provides a simple method for converting between file types.

Manipulations of Triangular Meshes Based on the 'VCGLIB' API

Operations on triangular meshes based on 'VCGLIB'. This package integrates nicely with the R-package 'rgl' to render the meshes processed by 'Rvcg'. The Visualization and Computer Graphics Library (VCG for short) is an open source portable C++ templated library for manipulation, processing and displaying with OpenGL of triangle and tetrahedral meshes. The library, composed by more than 100k lines of code, is released under the GPL license, and it is the base of most of the software tools of the Visual Computing Lab of the Italian National Research Council Institute ISTI < https://vcg.isti.cnr.it/>, like 'metro' and 'MeshLab'. The 'VCGLIB' source is pulled from trunk < https://github.com/cnr-isti-vclab/vcglib> and patched to work with options determined by the configure script as well as to work with the header files included by 'RcppEigen'.

Read and Write '.ini' Files

Parse simple '.ini' configuration files to an structured list. Users can manipulate this resulting list with lapply() functions. This same structured list can be used to write back to file after modifications.

Solving Linear Inverse Models

Functions that (1) find the minimum/maximum of a linear or quadratic function: min or max (f(x)), where f(x) = ||Ax-b||^2 or f(x) = sum(a_i*x_i) subject to equality constraints Ex=f and/or inequality constraints Gx>=h, (2) sample an underdetermined- or overdetermined system Ex=f subject to Gx>=h, and if applicable Ax~=b, (3) solve a linear system Ax=B for the unknown x. It includes banded and tridiagonal linear systems.

Extract Genotypes from a PLINK .bed File

A matrix-like data structure that allows for efficient, convenient, and scalable subsetting of binary genotype/phenotype files generated by PLINK (< https://www.cog-genomics.org/plink2>), the whole genome association analysis toolset, without loading the entire file into memory.