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2023

Cookbook Polars for R

2020

VSCode - vscode-R + vscode-r-lsp VSCode R Langauage Support
gt (⭐2k) - Easily generate information-rich, publication-quality tables from R
lightgbm - Light Gradient Boosting Machine.
torch - Tensors and Neural Networks with 'GPU' Acceleration.

2019

ggforce (⭐916) - ggplot2 extension framework
rayshader (⭐2.1k) - 2D and 3D data visualizations via rgl
vroom (⭐621) - Fast reading of delimited files

Integrated Development Environments

Integrated Development Environment

VSCode - vscode-R + vscode-r-lsp VSCode R Langauage Support
RStudio - A powerful and productive user interface for R. Works great on Windows, Mac, and Linux.
Emacs + ESS - Emacs Speaks Statistics is an add-on package for emacs text editors.
Sublime Text + R-IDE (⭐112) - Add-on package for Sublime Text 2/3.
TextMate + r.tmblundle (⭐25) - Add-on package for TextMate 1/2.
StatET - An Eclipse based IDE for R.
R Commander - A package that provides a basic graphical user interface.
IRkernel (⭐1.7k) - R kernel for Jupyter.
Deducer - A Menu driven data analysis GUI with a spreadsheet like data editor.
Radiant - A platform-independent browser-based interface for business analytics in R, based on the Shiny.
Nvim-R (⭐968) - Neovim plugin for R.
Jamovi and JASP - Desktop software for both Bayesian and Frequentist methods, using a UI familiar to SPSS users.
Bio7 - An IDE contains tools for model creation, scientific image analysis and statistical analysis for ecological modelling.
RTVS - R Tools for Visual Studio.
radian (⭐2k) (formerly rtichoke) - A modern R console with syntax highlighting.
RKWard - An extensible IDE/GUI for R.

Syntax

Packages change the way you use R.

magrittr (⭐959) - Let's pipe it.
pipeR (⭐169) - Multi-paradigm Pipeline Implementation.
lambda.r (⭐216) - Functional programming and simple pattern matching in R.
purrr (⭐1.3k) - A FP package for R in the spirit of underscore.js.

Data Manipulation

Packages for cooking data.

dplyr (⭐4.8k) - Fast data frames manipulation and database query.
data.table (⭐3.6k) - Fast data manipulation in a short and flexible syntax.
reshape2 (⭐210) - Flexible rearrange, reshape and aggregate data.
tidyr (⭐1.4k) - Easily tidy data with spread and gather functions.
broom (⭐19) - Convert statistical analysis objects into tidy data frames.
rlist (⭐204) - A toolbox for non-tabular data manipulation with lists.
ff - Data structures designed to store large datasets.
lubridate (⭐734) - A set of functions to work with dates and times.
stringi (⭐305) - ICU based string processing package.
stringr (⭐609) - Consistent API for string processing, built on top of stringi.
bigmemory (⭐126) - Shared memory and memory-mapped matrices. The big* packages provide additional tools including linear models (biglm) and Random Forests (bigrf (⭐91)).
fuzzyjoin (⭐671) - Join tables together on inexact matching.
tidyverse (⭐1.7k) - Easily install and load packages from the tidyverse.
snakecase (⭐147) - Automatically parse and convert strings into cases like snake or camel among others.
DataExplorer (⭐513) - Fast exploratory data analysis with minimum code.

Data Formats

Packages for reading and writing data of different formats.

arrow - An interface to the Arrow C++ library.
feather (⭐2.7k) - Fast, interoperable binary data frame storage for Python, R, and more powered by Apache Arrow.
fst - Lightning Fast Serialization of Data Frames for R.
haven (⭐424) - Improved methods to import SPSS, Stata and SAS files in R.
jsonlite (⭐380) - A robust and quick way to parse JSON files in R.
qs (⭐406) - Quick serialization of R objects.
readxl - Read excel files (.xls and .xlsx) into R.
readr (⭐1k) - A fast and friendly way to read tabular data into R.
rio (⭐604) - A Swiss-Army Knife for Data I/O.
readODS (⭐0) - Read OpenDocument Spreadsheets into R as data.frames.
RcppTOML (⭐36) - Rcpp Bindings to C++ parser for TOML files.
vroom (⭐621) - Fast reading of delimited files.
writexl - Portable, light-weight data frame to xlsx exporter for R.
yaml (⭐166) - R package for converting objects to and from YAML.

Graphic Displays

Packages for showing data.

ggplot2 (⭐6.6k) - An implementation of the Grammar of Graphics.
ggfortify (⭐528) - A unified interface to ggplot2 popular statistical packages using one line of code.
ggrepel (⭐1.2k) - Repel overlapping text labels away from each other.
ggalt (⭐666) - Extra Coordinate Systems, Geoms and Statistical Transformations for ggplot2.
ggstatsplot (⭐2k) - ggplot2 Based Plots with Statistical Details
ggtree (⭐848) - Visualization and annotation of phylogenetic tree.
ggtech (⭐391) - ggplot2 tech themes and scales
ggplot2 Extensions - Showcases of ggplot2 extensions.
lattice (⭐68) - A powerful and elegant high-level data visualization system.
corrplot (⭐319) - A graphical display of a correlation matrix or general matrix. It also contains some algorithms to do matrix reordering.
rgl - 3D visualization device system for R.
Cairo - R graphics device using cairo graphics library for creating high-quality display output.
extrafont (⭐317) - Tools for using fonts in R graphics.
showtext (⭐481) - Enable R graphics device to show text using system fonts.
animation (⭐206) - A simple way to produce animated graphics in R, using ImageMagick.
gganimate (⭐2k) - Create easy animations with ggplot2.
misc3d - Powerful functions to deal with 3d plots, isosurfaces, etc.
xkcd - Use xkcd style in graphs.
imager - An image processing package based on CImg library to work with images and display them.
hrbrthemes (⭐1.2k) - 🔏 Opinionated, typographic-centric ggplot2 themes and theme components.
waffle (⭐778) - 🍁 Make waffle (square pie) charts in R.
dendextend (⭐153) - visualizing, adjusting and comparing trees of hierarchical clustering.
idendro (⭐9) - interactive exploration of dendrograms (trees of hierarchical clustering).
r2d3 - R Interface to D3 Visualizations
Patchwork (⭐2.5k) - Combine separate ggplots into the same graphic.
plot3D - Plotting Multi-Dimensional Data
plot3Drgl - Plotting Multi-Dimensional Data - Using 'rgl'
httpgd (⭐400) - Asynchronous http server graphics device for R.

HTML Widgets

Packages for interactive visualizations.

heatmaply (⭐380) - Interactive heatmaps with D3.
d3heatmap (⭐236) - Interactive heatmaps with D3 (no longer maintained).
DataTables - Displays R matrices or data frames as interactive HTML tables.
DiagrammeR (⭐1.7k) - Create JS graph diagrams and flowcharts in R.
dygraphs (⭐365) - Charting time-series data in R.
formattable (⭐696) - Formattable Data Structures.
ggvis (⭐713) - Interactive grammar of graphics for R.
Leaflet - One of the most popular JavaScript libraries interactive maps.
MetricsGraphics - Enables easy creation of D3 scatterplots, line charts, and histograms.
networkD3 - D3 JavaScript Network Graphs from R.
scatterD3 (⭐160) - Interactive scatterplots with D3.
plotly (⭐2.6k) - Interactive ggplot2 and Shiny plotting with plot.ly.
rCharts (⭐1.2k) - Interactive JS Charts from R.
rbokeh - R Interface to Bokeh.
threejs (⭐303) - Interactive 3D scatter plots and globes.
timevis (⭐662) - Create fully interactive timeline visualizations.
visNetwork (⭐545) - Using vis.js library for network visualization.
wordcloud2 (⭐396) - R interface to wordcloud2.js.
highcharter (⭐723) - R wrapper for highcharts based on htmlwidgets
echarts4r (⭐602) - R wrapper to Echarts version 4

Reproducible Research

Packages for literate programming and reproducible workflows.

knitr (⭐2.4k) - Easy dynamic report generation in R.
redoc (⭐514) - Reversible Reproducible Documents
tinytex (⭐995) - A lightweight and easy-to-maintain LaTeX distribution
xtable - Export tables to LaTeX or HTML.
rapport - An R templating system.
rmarkdown - Dynamic documents for R.
slidify (⭐844) - Generate reproducible html5 slides from R markdown.
Sweave - A package designed to write LaTeX reports using R.
texreg (⭐113) - Formatting statistical models in LaTex and HTML.
checkpoint (⭐164) - Install packages from snapshots on the checkpoint server.
brew - Pre-compute data to enhance your report templates. Can be combined with knitr.
officer - An R package to generate Microsoft Word, Microsoft PowerPoint and HTML reports.
flextable - An R package to embed complex tables (merged cells, multi-level headers and footers, conditional formatting) in Microsoft Word, Microsoft PowerPoint and HTML reports. It cooperates with the [officer] package and integrates with [rmarkdown] reports.
bookdown - Authoring Books with R Markdown.
ezknitr (⭐113) - Avoid the typical working directory pain when using 'knitr'
targets - Make-like pipeline tool for organizing and running data science workflows, automatically skipping steps that have already been done. Supported by rOpenSci.
R Suite - A package to design flexible and reproducible deployment workflows for R.
kable - Build fancy HTML or 'LaTeX' tables using 'kable()' from 'knitr'.

Web Technologies and Services

Packages to surf the web.

Web Technologies List (⭐175) - Information about how to use R and the world wide web together.
shiny (⭐5.4k) - Easy interactive web applications with R. See also awesome-rshiny (⭐805)
shinyjs (⭐738) - Easily improve the user interaction and user experience in your Shiny apps in seconds.
RCurl - General network (HTTP/FTP/...) client interface for R.
curl (⭐220) - A Modern and Flexible Web Client for R.
httr (⭐986) - User-friendly RCurl wrapper.
httpuv (⭐229) - HTTP and WebSocket server library.
XML - Tools for parsing and generating XML within R.
xml2 - Optimized tools for parsing and generating XML within R.
rvest (⭐1.5k) - Simple web scraping for R, using CSSSelect or XPath syntax.
OpenCPU - HTTP API for R handling concurrent calls, based on the Apache2 web server, to expose R code as REST web services and create full-sized, multi-page web applications.
Rfacebook (⭐350) - Access to Facebook API via R.
RSiteCatalyst (⭐127) - R client library for the Adobe Analytics.
plumber (⭐1.4k) - A library to expose existing R code as web API.
golem - A framework for building production-grade Shiny apps.

Parallel Computing

Packages for parallel computing.

parallel - R started with release 2.14.0 which includes a new package parallel incorporating (slightly revised) copies of packages multicore and snow.
Rmpi - Rmpi provides an interface (wrapper) to MPI APIs. It also provides interactive R slave environment.
foreach - Executing the loop in parallel.
future - A minimal, efficient, cross-platform unified Future API for parallel and distributed processing in R; designed for beginners as well as advanced developers.
SparkR (⭐641) - R frontend for Spark.
DistributedR (⭐163) - A scalable high-performance platform from HP Vertica Analytics Team.
ddR (⭐118) - Provides distributed data structures and simplifies distributed computing in R.
sparklyr - R interface for Apache Spark from RStudio.
batchtools - High performance computing with LSF, TORQUE, Slurm, OpenLava, SGE and Docker Swarm.

High Performance

Packages for making R faster.

Rcpp - Rcpp provides a powerful API on top of R, make function in R extremely faster.
Rcpp11 (⭐78) - Rcpp11 is a complete redesign of Rcpp, targetting C++11.
compiler - speeding up your R code using the JIT
cpp11 (⭐205) - cpp11 is a header-only R package that helps R package developers handle R objects with C++ code. It's similar to Rcpp but with different design trade-offs and features.

Language API

Packages for other languages.

rJava - Low-level R to Java interface.
jvmr (⭐16) - Integration of R, Java, and Scala.
reticulate - Interface to 'Python'.
rJython - R interface to Python via Jython.
rPython - Package allowing R to call Python.
runr (⭐87) - Run Julia and Bash from R.
RJulia (⭐145) - R package Call Julia.
JuliaCall (⭐269) - Seamless Integration Between R and Julia.
RinRuby - a Ruby library that integrates the R interpreter in Ruby.
R.matlab - Read and write of MAT files together with R-to-MATLAB connectivity.
RcppOctave (⭐18) - Seamless Interface to Octave and Matlab.
RSPerl - A bidirectional interface for calling R from Perl and Perl from R.
V8 (⭐201) - Embedded JavaScript Engine.
htmlwidgets - Bring the best of JavaScript data visualization to R.
rpy2 - Python interface for R.

Database Management

Packages for managing data.

RODBC - ODBC database access for R.
DBI (⭐300) - Defines a common interface between the R and database management systems.
elastic (⭐245) - Wrapper for the Elasticsearch HTTP API
mongolite (⭐286) - Streaming Mongo Client for R
odbc (⭐392) - Connect to ODBC databases (using the DBI interface)
RMariaDB (⭐132) - An R interface to MariaDB (a replacement for the old RMySQL package)
RMySQL - R interface to the MySQL database.
ROracle - OCI based Oracle database interface for R.
RPostgres (⭐334) - an DBI-compliant interface to the postgres database.
RPostgreSQL - R interface to the PostgreSQL database system.
RSQLite - SQLite interface for R
RJDBC - Provides access to databases through the JDBC interface.
rmongodb (⭐53) - R driver for MongoDB.
redux (⭐94) - Redis client for R.
RCassandra - Direct interface (not Java) to the most basic functionality of Apache Cassandra.
RHive (⭐122) - R extension facilitating distributed computing via Apache Hive.
RNeo4j (⭐239) - Neo4j graph database driver.
rpostgis (⭐78) - R interface to PostGIS database and get spatial objects in R.

Machine Learning

Packages for making R cleverer.

anomalize (⭐339) - Tidy Anomaly Detection using Twitter's AnomalyDetection method.
AnomalyDetection (⭐3.6k) - AnomalyDetection R package from Twitter.
ahaz - Regularization for semiparametric additive hazards regression.
arules - Mining Association Rules and Frequent Itemsets
bigrf - Big Random Forests: Classification and Regression Forests for Large Data Sets
bigRR - Generalized Ridge Regression (with special advantage for p >> n cases)
bmrm - Bundle Methods for Regularized Risk Minimization Package
Boruta - A wrapper algorithm for all-relevant feature selection
BreakoutDetection (⭐755) - Breakout Detection via Robust E-Statistics from Twitter.
bst - Gradient Boosting
CausalImpact (⭐1.7k) - Causal inference using Bayesian structural time-series models.
C50 - C5.0 Decision Trees and Rule-Based Models
caret - Classification and Regression Training
Clever Algorithms For Machine Learning (⭐239)
CORElearn - Classification, regression, feature evaluation and ordinal evaluation
CoxBoost - Cox models by likelihood based boosting for a single survival endpoint or competing risks
Cubist - Rule- and Instance-Based Regression Modeling
e1071 - Misc Functions of the Department of Statistics (e1071), TU Wien
earth - Multivariate Adaptive Regression Spline Models
elasticnet - Elastic-Net for Sparse Estimation and Sparse PCA
ElemStatLearn - Data sets, functions and examples from the book: "The Elements of Statistical Learning, Data Mining, Inference, and Prediction" by Trevor Hastie, Robert Tibshirani and Jerome Friedman
evtree - Evolutionary Learning of Globally Optimal Trees
fable (⭐564) - a collection of commonly used univariate and multivariate time series forecasting models
prophet (⭐19k) - Tool for producing high quality forecasts for time series data that has multiple seasonality with linear or non-linear growth.
FSelector - A feature selection framework, based on subset-search or feature ranking approches.
frbs - Fuzzy Rule-based Systems for Classification and Regression Tasks
GAMBoost - Generalized linear and additive models by likelihood based boosting
gamboostLSS - Boosting Methods for GAMLSS
gbm - Generalized Boosted Regression Models
glmnet - Lasso and elastic-net regularized generalized linear models
glmpath - L1 Regularization Path for Generalized Linear Models and Cox Proportional Hazards Model
GMMBoost - Likelihood-based Boosting for Generalized mixed models
grplasso - Fitting user specified models with Group Lasso penalty
grpreg - Regularization paths for regression models with grouped covariates
h2o - Deeplearning, Random forests, GBM, KMeans, PCA, GLM
hda - Heteroscedastic Discriminant Analysis
ipred - Improved Predictors
kernlab - kernlab: Kernel-based Machine Learning Lab
klaR - Classification and visualization
kohonen - Supervised and Unsupervised Self-Organising Maps.
L0Learn - Fast algorithms for best subset selection
lars - Least Angle Regression, Lasso and Forward Stagewise
lasso2 - L1 constrained estimation aka ‘lasso’
LiblineaR - Linear Predictive Models Based On The Liblinear C/C++ Library
lightgbm - Light Gradient Boosting Machine.
lme4 (⭐626) - Mixed-effects models
nlme - Mixed-effects models, handling user-specified matrix of residual covariance, relevant for the analysis of repeated observations in longitudinal trials
glmmTMB - Generalized mixed-effects models, handling user-specified matrix of residual covariance, relevant for the analysis of repeated observations in longitudinal trials
LogicReg - Logic Regression
maptree - Mapping, pruning, and graphing tree models
mboost - Model-Based Boosting
Machine Learning For Hackers (⭐3.7k)
mlr (⭐1.6k) - Extensible framework for classification, regression, survival analysis and clustering [DEPRECIATED]
mlr3 (⭐949) - Next generation extensible framework for classification, regression, survival analysis and clustering
mvpart - Multivariate partitioning
MXNet (⭐21k) - MXNet brings flexible and efficient GPU computing and state-of-art deep learning to R.
ncvreg - Regularization paths for SCAD- and MCP-penalized regression models
nnet - eed-forward Neural Networks and Multinomial Log-Linear Models
oblique.tree - Oblique Trees for Classification Data
pamr - Pam: prediction analysis for microarrays
party - A Laboratory for Recursive Partytioning
partykit - A Toolkit for Recursive Partytioning
penalized - L1 (lasso and fused lasso) and L2 (ridge) penalized estimation in GLMs and in the Cox model
penalizedLDA - Penalized classification using Fisher's linear discriminant
penalizedSVM - Feature Selection SVM using penalty functions
quantregForest - quantregForest: Quantile Regression Forests
randomForest - randomForest: Breiman and Cutler's random forests for classification and regression.
randomForestSRC - randomForestSRC: Random Forests for Survival, Regression and Classification (RF-SRC).
ranger (⭐779) - A Fast Implementation of Random Forests.
rattle - Graphical user interface for data mining in R.
rda - Shrunken Centroids Regularized Discriminant Analysis
rdetools - Relevant Dimension Estimation (RDE) in Feature Spaces
REEMtree - Regression Trees with Random Effects for Longitudinal (Panel) Data
relaxo - Relaxed Lasso
rgenoud - R version of GENetic Optimization Using Derivatives
rgp - R genetic programming framework
Rmalschains - Continuous Optimization using Memetic Algorithms with Local Search Chains (MA-LS-Chains) in R
rminer - Simpler use of data mining methods (e.g. NN and SVM) in classification and regression
ROCR - Visualizing the performance of scoring classifiers
RoughSets - Data Analysis Using Rough Set and Fuzzy Rough Set Theories
rpart - Recursive Partitioning and Regression Trees
RPMM - Recursively Partitioned Mixture Model
RSNNS - Neural Networks in R using the Stuttgart Neural Network Simulator (SNNS)
Rsomoclu - Parallel implementation of self-organizing maps.
RWeka - R/Weka interface
RXshrink - RXshrink: Maximum Likelihood Shrinkage via Generalized Ridge or Least Angle Regression
sda - Shrinkage Discriminant Analysis and CAT Score Variable Selection
SDDA - Stepwise Diagonal Discriminant Analysis
SuperLearner (⭐271) and subsemble - Multi-algorithm ensemble learning packages.
survminer (⭐509) - Survival Analysis & Visualization
survival - Survival Analysis
svmpath - svmpath: the SVM Path algorithm
tgp - Bayesian treed Gaussian process models
tidymodels - A collection of packages for modeling and statistical analysis that share the underlying design philosophy, grammar, and data structures of the tidyverse.
torch - Tensors and Neural Networks with 'GPU' Acceleration.
tree - Classification and regression trees
varSelRF - Variable selection using random forests
xgboost (⭐572) - eXtreme Gradient Boosting Tree model, well known for its speed and performance.

Natural Language Processing

Packages for Natural Language Processing.

text2vec (⭐852) - Fast Text Mining Framework for Vectorization and Word Embeddings.
tm - A comprehensive text mining framework for R.
openNLP - Apache OpenNLP Tools Interface.
koRpus - An R Package for Text Analysis.
zipfR - Statistical models for word frequency distributions.
NLP - Basic functions for Natural Language Processing.
LDAvis (⭐557) - Interactive visualization of topic models.
topicmodels - Topic modeling interface to the C code developed by by David M. Blei for Topic Modeling (Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA), and Correlated Topics Models (CTM)).
syuzhet - Extracts sentiment from text using three different sentiment dictionaries.
SnowballC - Snowball stemmers based on the C libstemmer UTF-8 library.
quanteda (⭐844) - R functions for Quantitative Analysis of Textual Data.
Topic Models Resources (⭐228) - Topic Models learning and R related resources.
NLP for - NLP related resources in R. @Chinese
MonkeyLearn (⭐93) - 🐒 R package for text analysis with Monkeylearn 🐒.
tidytext - Implementing tidy principles of Hadley Wickham to text mining.
utf8 (⭐113) - Manipulating and printing UTF-8 text that fixes multiple bugs in R's UTF-8 handling.
corporaexplorer - Dynamic exploration of text collections

Bayesian

Packages for Bayesian Inference.

brms - High-level interface for Bayesian regression models using Stan.
coda - Output analysis and diagnostics for MCMC.
mcmc - Markov Chain Monte Carlo.
MCMCpack - Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) Package.
R2WinBUGS - Running WinBUGS and OpenBUGS from R / S-PLUS.
BRugs - R interface to the OpenBUGS MCMC software.
rjags - R interface to the JAGS MCMC library.
rstan - R interface to the Stan MCMC software.

Optimization

Packages for Optimization.

lpSolve - Interface to Lp_solve to Solve Linear/Integer Programs.
minqa - Derivative-free optimization algorithms by quadratic approximation.
nloptr - NLopt is a free/open-source library for nonlinear optimization.
ompr - Model mixed integer linear programs in an algebraic way directly in R.
Rglpk - R/GNU Linear Programming Kit Interface
ROI - The R Optimization Infrastructure ('ROI') is a sophisticated framework for handling optimization problems in R.

Finance

Packages for dealing with money.

quantmod - Quantitative Financial Modelling & Trading Framework for R.
pedquant - Public Economic Data and Quantitative Analysis
TTR - Functions and data to construct technical trading rules with R.
PerformanceAnalytics - Econometric tools for performance and risk analysis.
zoo - S3 Infrastructure for Regular and Irregular Time Series.
xts - eXtensible Time Series.
tseries - Time series analysis and computational finance.
fAssets - Analysing and Modelling Financial Assets.
scorecard (⭐161) - Credit Risk Scorecard

Bioinformatics and Biostatistics

Packages for processing biological datasets.

Bioconductor - Tools for the analysis and comprehension of high-throughput genomic data.
genetics - Classes and methods for handling genetic data.
gap - An integrated package for genetic data analysis of both population and family data.
ape - Analyses of Phylogenetics and Evolution.
pheatmap - Pretty heatmaps made easy.
lme4 (⭐626) - Generalized mixed-effects models.
nlme - Mixed-effects models, handling user-specified matrix of residual covariance, relevant for the anaysis of repeated observations in longitudinal trials.
glmmTMB - Generalized mixed-effects models, handling user-specified matrix of residual covariance, relevant for the anaysis of repeated observations in longitudinal trials.

Network Analysis

Packages to construct, analyze and visualize network data.

Network Analysis List (⭐3.6k) - Network Analysis related resources.
igraph - A collection of network analysis tools.
network - Basic tools to manipulate relational data in R.
sna - Basic network measures and visualization tools.
netdiffuseR (⭐86) - Tools for Analysis of Network Diffusion.
networkDynamic - Support for dynamic, (inter)temporal networks.
ndtv - Tools to construct animated visualizations of dynamic network data in various formats.
statnet - The project behind many R network analysis packages.
ergm - Exponential random graph models in R.
latentnet - Latent position and cluster models for network objects.
tnet - Network measures for weighted, two-mode and longitudinal networks.
rgexf - Export network objects from R to GEXF, for manipulation with network software like Gephi or Sigma.
visNetwork (⭐545) - Using vis.js library for network visualization.
tidygraph (⭐547) - A tidy API for graph manipulation

Spatial

Packages to explore the earth.

CRAN Task View: Analysis of Spatial Data- Spatial Analysis related resources.
Leaflet - One of the most popular JavaScript libraries interactive maps.
ggmap (⭐770) - Plotting maps in R with ggplot2.
REmap (⭐257) - R interface to the JavaScript library ECharts for interactive map data visualization.
sf - Improved Classes and Methods for Spatial Data.
sp - Classes and Methods for Spatial Data.
rgeos - Interface to Geometry Engine - Open Source
rgdal - Bindings for the Geospatial Data Abstraction Library
maptools - Tools for Reading and Handling Spatial Objects
gstat (⭐196) - Spatial and spatio-temporal geostatistical modelling, prediction and simulation.
spacetime (⭐74) - R classes and methods for spatio-temporal data.
RColorBrewer - Provides color schemes for maps
spatstat (⭐198) - Spatial Point Pattern Analysis, Model-Fitting, Simulation, Tests
spdep - Spatial Dependence: Weighting Schemes, Statistics and Models
tigris (⭐325) - Download and use Census TIGER/Line shapefiles in R
GWmodel - Geographically-Weighted Models
tmap (⭐12) - R package for thematic maps

R Development

Packages for packages.

Package Development List (⭐42) - R packages to improve package development.
promises - Abstractions for Promise-Based Asynchronous Programming
devtools (⭐2.4k) - Tools to make an R developer's life easier.
testthat (⭐892) - An R package to make testing fun.
R6 (⭐412) - simpler, faster, lighter-weight alternative to R's built-in classes.
pryr (⭐202) - Make it easier to understand what's going on in R.
roxygen (⭐597) - Describe your functions in comments next to their definitions.
lineprof (⭐105) - Visualise line profiling results in R.
renv (⭐1k) - Make your R projects more isolated, portable, and reproducible.
installr (⭐272) - Functions for installing softwares from within R (for Windows).
import (⭐222) - An import mechanism for R.
box (⭐872) - A modern module system for R.
Rocker - R configurations for Docker.
RStudio Addins (⭐845) - List of RStudio addins.
drat (⭐153) - Creation and use of R repositories on GitHub or other repos.
covr (⭐337) - Test coverage for your R package and (optionally) upload the results to coveralls or codecov.
lintr (⭐1.2k) - Static code analysis for R to enforce code style.
staticdocs (⭐722) - Generate static html documentation for an R package.
sinew (⭐166) - Generate roxygen2 skeletons populated with information scraped from the function script.

Logging

Packages for Logging

futile.logger (⭐151) - A logging package in R similar to log4j
log4r (⭐93) - A log4j derivative for R
logging - A logging package emulating the python logging package.

Data Packages

Handy Data Packages

engsoccerdata (⭐761) - English and European soccer results 1871-2016.
gapminder (⭐289) - Excerpt from the Gapminder dataset (data about countries through the past 50 years).
wbstats - Tools for searching and downloading data and statistics from the World Bank Data API and the World Bank Data Catalog API.
ICON (⭐7) - complex systems & networks datasets from the Index of COmplex Networks (ICON) database webpage.
RCOBOLDI (⭐14) - Import COBOL CopyBook data files directly into R as properly structured data frames. Package builds are available via Drat (⭐1) and DockerHub.

Other Tools

Handy Tools for R

git2r (⭐215) - Gives you programmatic access to Git repositories from R.
Conda - Most R packages are available through the Conda polyglot cross-platform dependency manager.

Other Interpreters

Alternative R engines.

CXXR - Refactorising R into C++.
fastR - FastR is an implementation of the R Language in Java atop Truffle and Graal.
pqR - a "pretty quick" implementation of R
renjin - a JVM-based interpreter for R.
rho (⭐133) - Refactor the interpreter of the R language into a fully-compatible, efficient, VM for R.
riposte (⭐90) - a fast interpreter and JIT for R.
TERR - TIBCO Enterprise Runtime for R.

Learning R

Packages for Learning R.

swirl - An interactive R tutorial directly in your R console.
DataScienceR (⭐2k) - a list of R tutorials for Data Science, NLP and Machine Learning.

Resources

Where to discover new R-esources.

Websites

Manuals

R-project - The R Project for Statistical Computing.
An Introduction to R - A very good introductory text on R, also covers some advanced topic. See also the Manuals section on CRAN
CRAN Contributed Docs - CRAN Contributed Documentation in many languages.
Quick-R - An excellent quick reference
tryR - A quick course for getting started with R.

Tools and References

RDocumentation - Search through all CRAN, Bioconductor, Github packages and their archives with RDocumentation.
rdrr.io - Find R package documentation. Try R packages in your browser.
CRAN Task Views - Task Views for CRAN packages.
rnotebook.io - Create online R Jupyter Notebooks for free.

News and Info

R Weekly - Weekly updates about R and Data Science. R Weekly is openly developed on GitHub.
R Bloggers - There are people scattered across the Web who blog about R. This is simply an aggregator of many of those feeds.
R-users - A job board for R users (and the people who are looking to hire them)

Books

Free and Online

R for Data Science by Garrett Grolemund & Hadley Wickham - Free book from RStudio developers with emphasis on data science workflow.
R Cookbook by Winston Chang - A problem-oriented online book that supports his R Graphics Cookbook, 2nd ed. (2018).
Advanced R, 2nd ed. by Hadley Wickham (2019) - An online version of the Advanced R book.
R Packages, 2nd ed. by Hadley Wickham & Jennifer Bryan - A book (in paper and website formats) on writing R packages.
Books written as part of the Johns Hopkins Data Science Specialization:
- Exploratory Data Analysis with R by Roger D. Peng (2016) - Basic analytical skills for all sorts of data in R.
- R Programming for Data Science by Roger D. Peng (2019) - More advanced data analysis that relies on R programming.
- Report Writing for Data Science in R by Roger D. Peng (2019) - R-based methods for reproducible research and report generation.
R for SAS and SPSS users by Bob Muenchen (2012) - An excellent resource for users already familiar with SAS or SPSS.
Introduction to Statistical Learning with Application in R by Gareth James et al. (2017) - A simplified and "operational" version of The Elements of Statistical Learning. Free softcopy provided by its authors.
The R Inferno by Patrick Burns (2011) - Patrick Burns gives insight into R's ins and outs along with its quirks!
Efficient R Programming by Colin Gillespie & Robin Lovelace (2017) - An online version of the O’Reilly book: Efficient R Programming.
The R Programming Wikibook - A collaborative handbook for R.

Paid

The Art of R Programming - It's a good resource for systematically learning fundamentals such as types of objects, control statements, variable scope, classes and debugging in R.
R Cookbook, 2nd ed. by JD Long & Paul Teetor (2019) - A quick and simple introduction to conducting many common statistical tasks with R.
R in Action - This book aims at all levels of users, with sections for beginning, intermediate and advanced R ranging from "Exploring R data structures" to running regressions and conducting factor analyses.
Use R! Series by Springer - This series of inexpensive and focused books from Springer publish shorter books aimed at practitioners. Books can discuss the use of R in a particular subject area, such as Bayesian networks, ggplot2 and Rcpp.
Learning R Programming - Learning R as a programming language from basics to advanced topics.

Book/monograph Lists and Reviews

R Books List (⭐243) - List of R Books.
Readings in Applied Data Science (⭐1.6k) - These readings reflect Hadley's personal thoughts about applied data science.

Podcasts

Not So Standard Deviations - The Data Science Podcast.
- @Roger Peng and @Hilary Parker.
R World News - R World News helps you keep up with happenings within the R community.
- @Bob Rudis and @Jay Jacobs.
The R-Podcast - Giving practical advice on how to use R.
- @Eric Nantz.
R Talk - News and discussions of statistical software and language R.
- @Oliver Keyes, @Jasmine Dumas, @Ted Hart and @Mikhail Popov.
R Weekly - Weekly news updates about the R community.

Reference Cards

RStudio Cheat Sheets
R Reference Card 2.0 - Material from R for Beginners by permission of Emmanuel Paradis (Version 2 by Matt Baggott).
Regression Analysis Refcard - R Reference Card for Regression Analysis.
Reference Card for ESS - Reference Card for ESS.

MOOCs

Massive open online courses.

Johns Hopkins University Data Science Specialization - 9 courses including: Introduction to R, literate analysis tools, Shiny and some more.
HarvardX Biomedical Data Science - Introduction to R for the Life Sciences.
Explore Statistics with R - Covers introduction, data handling and statistical analysis in R.

Lists

Great resources for learning domain knowledge.

Books (⭐243) - List of R Books.
ggplot2 Extensions - Showcases of ggplot2 extensions.
Natural Language Processing - NLP related resources in R. @Chinese
Network Analysis (⭐3.6k) - Network Analysis related resources.
Open Data (⭐199) - Using R to obtain, parse, manipulate, create, and share open data.
Posts (⭐6k) - Great R blog posts or Rticles.
Package Development (⭐42) - R packages to improve package development.
R Project Conferences - Information about useR! Conferences and DSC Conferences.
RStartHere (⭐664) - A guide to some of the most useful R packages, organized by workflow.
RStudio Addins (⭐845) - List of RStudio addins.
Topic Models (⭐228) - Topic Models learning and R related resources.
Web Technologies (⭐175) - Information about how to use R and the world wide web together.

R Ecosystems

R communities and package collections (in alphabetical order):

rOpenGov Open government data, computational social science, digital humanities
rOpenHealth Public health data
rOpenSci Open science

2018

fable (⭐564) - univariate and multivariate time series forecasting models
r2d3 - R Interface to D3 Visualizations
rstats-ed (⭐453) - List of courses teaching R
promises - Abstractions for Promise-Based Asynchronous Programming
tinytex - A lightweight and easy-to-maintain LaTeX distribution
Readings in Applied Data Science (⭐1.6k) - These readings reflect Hadley's personal thoughts about applied data science.

2017

prophet (⭐19k) - Tool for producing high quality forecasts for time series data that has multiple seasonality with linear or non-linear growth.
tidyverse (⭐1.7k) - Easily install and load packages from the tidyverse
purrr (⭐1.3k) - A functional programming toolkit for R
hrbrthemes (⭐1.2k) - 🔏 Opinionated, typographic-centric ggplot2 themes and theme components
xaringan (⭐1.5k) - Create HTML5 slides with R Markdown and the JavaScript library
blogdown (⭐1.7k) - Create Blogs and Websites with R Markdown
glue (⭐726) - Glue strings to data in R. Small, fast, dependency free interpreted string literals.
covr (⭐337) - Test coverage reports for R
lintr (⭐1.2k) - Static Code Analysis for R
reprex (⭐742) - Render bits of R code for sharing, e.g., on GitHub or StackOverflow.
reticulate (⭐1.7k) - R Interface to Python
tensorflow (⭐1.3k) - TensorFlow for R
utf8 (⭐113) - Manipulating and printing UTF-8 text that fixes multiple bugs in R's UTF-8 handling.
Patchwork (⭐2.5k) - Combine separate ggplots into the same graphic.

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