An interface to the web service methods provided by the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA). The Agricultural Research Service (ARS) provides a large set of databases. The current version of the package holds interfaces to the Systematic Mycology and Microbiology Laboratory (SMML), which consists of four databases: Fungus-Host Distributions, Specimens, Literature and the Nomenclature database. It provides functions for querying these databases. The main function is \code{associations}, which allows searching for fungus-host combinations.

Parallel computing with a network of local and remote
    workers. Fast exchange of results between the workers through a
    'Redis' database. Key features include task queues, local caching, and
    sophisticated error handling.

By placing on a circle 10 points numbered from 1 to 10, and connecting them by a straight line to the point corresponding to its multiplication by 2. (1 must be connected to 1 * 2 = 2, point 2 must be set to 2 * 2 = 4, point 3 to 3 * 2 = 6 and so on). You will obtain an amazing geometric figure that complicates and beautifies itself by varying the number of points and the multiplication table you use.

Uses the generalized ratio-of-uniforms (RU) method to simulate
    from univariate and (low-dimensional) multivariate continuous distributions.
    The user specifies the log-density, up to an additive constant. The RU
    algorithm is applied after relocation of mode of the density to zero, and
    the user can choose a tuning parameter r. For details see Wakefield, Gelfand
    and Smith (1991) <DOI:10.1007/BF01889987>, Efficient generation of random
    variates via the ratio-of-uniforms method, Statistics and Computing (1991)
    1, 129-133.  A Box-Cox variable transformation can be used to make the input
    density suitable for the RU method and to improve efficiency.  In the
    multivariate case rotation of axes can also be used to improve efficiency.
    From version 1.2.0 the 'Rcpp' package 
    <https://cran.r-project.org/package=Rcpp> can be used to improve efficiency.