rgplates - R Interface for the GPlates Web Service and Desktop Application
Query functions to the GPlates <https://www.gplates.org/>
Desktop Application and the GPlates Web Service
<https://gws.gplates.org/> allow users to reconstruct past
positions of geographic entities based on user-selected
rotation models without leaving the R running environment. The
online method (GPlates Web Service) makes the rotation of
static plates, coastlines, and a low number of geographic
coordinates available using nothing but an internet connection.
The offline method requires an external installation of the
GPlates Desktop Application, but allows the efficient batch
rotation of thousands of coordinates, Simple Features (sf) and
Spatial (sp) objects with custom reconstruction trees and
partitioning polygons. Examples of such plate tectonic models
are accessible via the chronosphere
<https://cran.r-project.org/package=chronosphere>. This R
extension is developed under the umbrella of the DFG (Deutsche
Forschungsgemeinschaft) Research Unit TERSANE2 (For 2332,
TEmperature Related Stressors in ANcient Extinctions).