An interface to 'Azure Computer Vision' <https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/cognitive-services/Computer-vision/Home> and 'Azure Custom Vision' <https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/cognitive-services/custom-vision-service/home>, building on the low-level functionality provided by the 'AzureCognitive' package. These services allow users to leverage the cloud to carry out visual recognition tasks using advanced image processing models, without needing powerful hardware of their own. Part of the 'AzureR' family of packages.

Functionality for working with virtual machines (VMs) in Microsoft's 'Azure' cloud: <https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/virtual-machines/>. Includes facilities to deploy, startup, shutdown, and cleanly delete VMs and VM clusters. Deployment configurations can be highly customised, and can make use of existing resources as well as creating new ones. A selection of predefined configurations is provided to allow easy deployment of commonly used Linux and Windows images, including Data Science Virtual Machines. With a running VM, execute scripts and install optional extensions. Part of the 'AzureR' family of packages.

A simple interface to the instance metadata for a virtual machine running in Microsoft's 'Azure' cloud. This provides information about the VM's configuration, such as its processors, memory, networking, storage, and so on. Part of the 'AzureR' family of packages.

Fast, dependency free, and vectorized base32 encoding and
    decoding. 'b32' supports the Crockford, Z, RFC 4648 lower, hex, and
    lower hex alphabets.

Provides a fast, lightweight, and vectorized base 64 engine
    to encode and decode character and raw vectors as well as files stored
    on disk. Common base 64 alphabets are supported out of the box
    including the standard, URL-safe, bcrypt, crypt, 'BinHex', and
    IMAP-modified UTF-7 alphabets. Custom engines can be created to
    support unique base 64 encoding and decoding needs.

Included here are babel routines for identifying unusual ribosome protected fragment counts given mRNA counts.