Text Extraction, Rendering and Converting of PDF Documents

Utilities based on 'libpoppler' < https://poppler.freedesktop.org> for extracting text, fonts, attachments and metadata from a PDF file. Also supports high quality rendering of PDF documents into PNG, JPEG, TIFF format, or into raw bitmap vectors for further processing in R.

JavaScript Object Signing and Encryption

Read and write JSON Web Keys (JWK, rfc7517), generate and verify JSON Web Signatures (JWS, rfc7515) and encode/decode JSON Web Tokens (JWT, rfc7519) < https://datatracker.ietf.org/wg/jose/documents/>. These standards provide modern signing and encryption formats that are natively supported by browsers via the JavaScript WebCryptoAPI < https://www.w3.org/TR/webcrypto/#jose>, and used by services like OAuth 2.0, LetsEncrypt, and Github Apps.

Producing and Reproducing Results

A system for embedded scientific computing and reproducible research with R as described in . The OpenCPU server exposes a simple but powerful HTTP api for RPC and data interchange with R. This provides a reliable and scalable foundation for statistical services or building R web applications. The OpenCPU server runs either as a single-user development server within the interactive R session, or as a multi-user Linux stack based on Apache2. The entire system is fully open source and permissively licensed. The OpenCPU website has detailed documentation and example apps.

Easily Send HTML Email Messages

Compose and send out responsive HTML email messages that render perfectly across a range of email clients and device sizes. Helper functions let the user insert embedded images, web link buttons, and 'ggplot2' plot objects into the message body. Messages can be sent through an 'SMTP' server, through the 'Posit Connect' service, or through the 'Mailgun' API service < https://www.mailgun.com/>.

R Bindings for 'ZeroMQ'

Interface to the 'ZeroMQ' lightweight messaging kernel (see < https://zeromq.org/> for more information).

Minimal Examples of Using Rust Code in R

Template R package with minimal setup to use Rust code in R without hacks or frameworks. Includes basic examples of importing cargo dependencies, spawning threads and passing numbers or strings from Rust to R. Cargo crates are automatically 'vendored' in the R source package to support offline installation. The GitHub repository for this package has more details and also explains how to set up CI. This project was first presented at 'Erum2018' to showcase R-Rust integration < https://jeroen.github.io/erum2018/>; for a real world use-case, see the 'gifski' package on 'CRAN'.

Read and Play Digital Music (MIDI)

Bindings to 'libfluidsynth' to parse and synthesize MIDI files. It can read MIDI into a data frame, play it on the local audio device, or convert into an audio file.

Fast Polygon to Raster Conversion

Provides a drop-in replacement for rasterize() from the 'raster' package that takes polygon vector or data frame objects, and is much faster. There is support for the main options provided by the rasterize() function, including setting the field used and background value, and options for aggregating multi-layer rasters. Uses the scan line algorithm attributed to Wylie et al. (1967) .

Query 'R' Versions, Including 'r-release' and 'r-oldrel'

Query the main 'R' 'SVN' repository to find the versions 'r-release' and 'r-oldrel' refer to, and also all previous 'R' versions and their release dates.

Access Uber's H3 Library

Provides access to Uber's H3 library for geospatial indexing via its JavaScript transpile 'h3-js' < https://github.com/uber/h3-js> and 'V8' < https://github.com/jeroen/v8>.