R's 'sf' package ships with self-contained 'GDAL'
    executables, including a bare bones interface to several
    'GDAL'-related utility programs collectively known as the 'GDAL
    utilities'. For each of those utilities, this package provides an
    R wrapper whose formal arguments closely mirror those of the
    'GDAL' command line interface. The utilities operate on data
    stored in files and typically write their output to other
    files. Therefore, to process data stored in any of R's more common
    spatial formats (i.e. those supported by the 'sf' and 'terra'
    packages), first write them to disk, then process them with the
    package's wrapper functions before reading the outputted results
    back into R. GDAL function arguments introduced in GDAL version
    3.5.2 or earlier are supported.

Various R programming tools for data manipulation, including
  medical unit conversions, combining objects, character vector operations,
  factor manipulation, obtaining information about R objects, generating
  fixed-width format files, extracting components of date & time objects,
  operations on columns of data frames, matrix operations, operations on
  vectors, operations on data frames, value of last evaluated expression, and a
  resample() wrapper for sample() that ensures consistent behavior for both
  scalar and vector arguments.

Many tools for Geometric Data Analysis (Le Roux & Rouanet (2005) <doi:10.1007/1-4020-2236-0>), such as MCA variants (Specific Multiple Correspondence Analysis, Class Specific Analysis), many graphical and statistical aids to interpretation (structuring factors, concentration ellipses, inductive tests, bootstrap validation, etc.) and multiple-table analysis (Multiple Factor Analysis, between- and inter-class analysis, Principal Component Analysis and Correspondence Analysis with Instrumental Variables, etc.).

Functions to explore datasets from the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF - <https://www.gbif.org/>) using a Shiny interface.