Package: rgplates
Type: Package
Title: R Interface for the GPlates Web Service and Desktop Application
Version: 0.6.1
Authors@R: c(
	person(given="Adam T.", family="Kocsis", role=c("cre", "aut"),
		   email="adam.t.kocsis@gmail.com", comment=c(ORCID="0000-0002-9028-665X")),
 	person(given="Nussaibah B.", family="Raja", role=c("ctb"), comment=c(ORCID="0000-0002-0000-3944")),
 	person(given="Simon", family="Williams", role=c("ctb"), comment=c(ORCID="0000-0003-4670-8883")),
 	person(given="Elizabeth M.", family="Dowding", role=c("ctb"), comment=c(ORCID="0000-0002-2423-8254")),
	person(given="Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft", role="fnd"),
	person(given="FAU GeoZentrum Nordbayern", role="fnd"))
Description: 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).
License: CC BY 4.0
Date: 2025-09-10
URL: https://gplates.github.io/rgplates/
BugReports: https://github.com/gplates/rgplates/issues
Encoding: UTF-8
LazyData: true
Depends: R (>= 3.5.0), sf
Imports: methods, utils
NeedsCompilation: no
RoxygenNote: 7.3.2
Suggests: knitr, rmarkdown, chronosphere, httr2, geojsonsf, sp, terra
Config/pak/sysreqs: libabsl-dev cmake libgdal-dev gdal-bin libgeos-dev
        libssl-dev libproj-dev libsqlite3-dev libudunits2-dev
Repository: https://gplates.r-universe.dev
Date/Publication: 2025-09-11 13:05:31 UTC
RemoteUrl: https://github.com/gplates/rgplates
RemoteRef: HEAD
RemoteSha: 4d62bba877ec383324dafd5a5ce6e057182b9eaa
Packaged: 2026-06-08 08:31:00 UTC; root
Author: Adam T. Kocsis [cre, aut] (ORCID:
    <https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9028-665X>),
  Nussaibah B. Raja [ctb] (ORCID:
    <https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0000-3944>),
  Simon Williams [ctb] (ORCID: <https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4670-8883>),
  Elizabeth M. Dowding [ctb] (ORCID:
    <https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2423-8254>),
  Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft [fnd],
  FAU GeoZentrum Nordbayern [fnd]
Maintainer: Adam T. Kocsis <adam.t.kocsis@gmail.com>