Configurable Progress bars, they may include percentage, elapsed time, and/or the estimated completion time. They work in terminals, in 'Emacs' 'ESS', 'RStudio', 'Windows' 'Rgui' and the 'macOS' 'R.app'. The package also provides a 'C++' 'API', that works with or without 'Rcpp'.

Import excel files into R. Supports '.xls' via the embedded 'libxls' C library <https://github.com/libxls/libxls> and '.xlsx' via the embedded 'RapidXML' C++ library <http://rapidxml.sourceforge.net>.

In recent years a wealth of biological data has become available in public data repositories. Easy access to these valuable data resources and firm integration with data analysis is needed for comprehensive bioinformatics data analysis.

The R package 'ggplot2' is a plotting system based on the grammar of graphics. 'GGally' extends 'ggplot2' by adding several functions to reduce the complexity of combining geometric objects with transformed data.

An interface to the Nexus Class Library which allows parsing of NEXUS, Newick and other phylogenetic tree file formats. It provides elements of the file that can be used to build phylogenetic objects such as ape's 'phylo' or phylobase's 'phylo4(d)'.

Creates and manages simple key-value stores. These can use a variety of approaches for storing the data.

Interface to 'TensorFlow' Estimators <https://www.tensorflow.org/programmers_guide/estimators>, a high-level API that provides implementations of many different model types including linear models and deep neural networks.

Easily talk to Google's 'BigQuery' database from R.

Model mixed integer linear programs in an algebraic way directly in R. The model is solver-independent and thus offers the possibility to solve a model with different solvers.

Stacking arrays according to dimension names, subset-aware splitting and mapping of functions, intersecting along arbitrary dimensions, converting to and from data.frames, and many other helper functions.

The rols package is an interface to the Ontology Lookup Service (OLS) to access and query hundred of ontolgies directly from R.