The goal of sPlotOpenR is to make it easier to acquire, process, and visualize data from the sPlotOpen global vegetation dataset.
You can install the development version of sPlotOpenR like so:
devtools::install_github("andrewsiefert/sPlotOpenR")
library(sPlotOpenR)
# download sPlotOpen dataset and load into R
data <- get_sPlot(load = T)