Implements the efficient estimator of bid-ask spreads from open, high, low, and close prices
  described in Ardia, Guidotti, & Kroencke (JFE, 2024) <doi:10.1016/j.jfineco.2024.103916>. 
  It also provides an implementation of the estimators described in 
  Roll (JF, 1984) <doi:10.1111/j.1540-6261.1984.tb03897.x>, 
  Corwin & Schultz (JF, 2012) <doi:10.1111/j.1540-6261.2012.01729.x>,
  and Abdi & Ranaldo (RFS, 2017) <doi:10.1093/rfs/hhx084>.

Calculates the bidimensional regression between two 2D configurations following the approach by Tobler (1965).

A selection of distances measures for bioinformatics data. Other important distance measures for bioinformatics data are selected from the R package 'parallelDist'. A special distance measure for the Gene Ontology is available.

Parse and read the files that comply with the brain imaging data 
    structure, or 'BIDS' format, see the publication from Gorgolewski, K., 
    Auer, T., Calhoun, V. et al. (2016) <doi:10.1038/sdata.2016.44>.
    Provides query functions to extract and check the 'BIDS' entity 
    information (such as subject, session, task, etc.) from the file paths
    and suffixes according to the specification. The package is developed 
    and used in the reproducible analysis and visualization of intracranial 
    electroencephalography, or 'RAVE', see Magnotti, J. F., Wang, Z., and 
    Beauchamp, M. S. (2020) <doi:10.1016/j.neuroimage.2020.117341>; see
    'citation("bidsr")' for details and attributions.

Provides a framework and toolkit to guide 'shiny' developers in
    implementing the Behavioral Insight Design (BID) framework. The package offers
    functions for documenting each of the five stages (Notice, Interpret,
    Structure, Anticipate, and Validate), along with a comprehensive concept
    dictionary.

Provides Tools for Accessing the Botanical Information and Ecology Network Database.  The BIEN database contains cleaned and standardized botanical data including occurrence, trait, plot and taxonomic data (See <https://bien.nceas.ucsb.edu/bien/> for more Information).  This package provides functions that query the BIEN database by constructing and executing optimized SQL queries.