This package makes available 50 objective functions for benchmarking the performance of global optimization algorithms

Identifies global ("unknown" or "free") objects in R expressions
    by code inspection using various strategies (ordered, liberal,
    conservative, or deep-first search). The objective of this package is to
    make it as simple as possible to identify global objects for the purpose
    of exporting them in parallel, distributed compute environments.

'Google' offers public access to global search volumes from its
    search engine through the 'Google Trends' portal. The package downloads
    these search volumes provided by 'Google Trends' and uses them to
    measure and analyze the distribution of search scores across countries
    or within countries. The package allows researchers and analysts to
    use these search scores to investigate global trends based on patterns
    within these scores. This offers insights such as degree of
    internationalization of firms and organizations or dissemination of
    political, social, or technological trends across the globe or within
    single countries.  An outline of the package's methodological
    foundations and potential applications is available as a working
    paper: <doi:10.2139/ssrn.3969013>.

Basic functions for plotting 2D and 3D views of a sphere, by default the Earth with its major coastline, and additional lines and points.

Generalized LassO applied to knot selection in multivariate B-splinE Regression (GLOBER) implements a novel approach for estimating functions in a multivariate nonparametric regression model based on an adaptive knot selection for B-splines using the Generalized Lasso. For further details we refer the reader to the paper Savino, M. E. and Lévy-Leduc, C. (2023), <arXiv:2306.00686>.

Provides tools to access, search, and download global 
    3D building footprint datasets (3D-GloBFP) generated by 
    Che et al. (2024) <doi:10.5194/essd-16-5357-2024>. 
    The package includes functions to retrieve metadata, filter by bounding box, 
    and download building height tiles.