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Dec 02 - Dec 08, 2024

Bayesian

• brms - High-level interface for Bayesian regression models using Stan.

Feb 19 - Feb 25, 2024

Integrated Development Environments

• Sublime Text + R-IDE (⭐112) - Add-on package for Sublime Text 2/3.

• Nvim-R (⭐968) - Neovim plugin for R.

R Development

• renv (⭐1k) - Make your R projects more isolated, portable, and reproducible.

• box (⭐872) - A modern module system for R.

Dec 25 - Dec 31, 2023

2023

• Cookbook Polars for R

Reproducible Research

• targets - Make-like pipeline tool for organizing and running data science workflows, automatically skipping steps that have already been done. Supported by rOpenSci.

Jun 07 - Jun 13, 2021

Graphic Displays

• httpgd (⭐400) - Asynchronous http server graphics device for R.

Web Technologies and Services

• golem - A framework for building production-grade Shiny apps.

Natural Language Processing

• corporaexplorer - Dynamic exploration of text collections

Dec 28 - Jan 03, 2020

Data Formats

• vroom (⭐621) - Fast reading of delimited files.

• 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.

• writexl - Portable, light-weight data frame to xlsx exporter for R.

• yaml (⭐166) - R package for converting objects to and from YAML.

Dec 21 - Dec 27, 2020

Machine Learning

• lightgbm - Light Gradient Boosting Machine.

• torch - Tensors and Neural Networks with 'GPU' Acceleration.

• nlme - Mixed-effects models, handling user-specified matrix of residual covariance, relevant for the analysis of repeated observations in longitudinal trials

• tidymodels - A collection of packages for modeling and statistical analysis that share the underlying design philosophy, grammar, and data structures of the tidyverse.

Language API

• reticulate - Interface to 'Python'.

Nov 23 - Nov 29, 2020

High Performance

• 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.

Oct 12 - Oct 18, 2020

Lists / Book/monograph Lists and Reviews

• Posts (⭐6k) - Great R blog posts or Rticles.

Jul 20 - Jul 26, 2020

Machine Learning

• fable (⭐564) - a collection of commonly used univariate and multivariate time series forecasting models

May 11 - May 17, 2020

Data Packages

• RCOBOLDI (⭐14) - Import COBOL CopyBook data files directly into R as properly structured data frames. Package builds are available via Drat (⭐1) and DockerHub.

Apr 13 - Apr 19, 2020

2020

• VSCode - vscode-R + vscode-r-lsp VSCode R Langauage Support

• gt (⭐2k) - Easily generate information-rich, publication-quality tables from R

Integrated Development Environments

• VSCode - vscode-R + vscode-r-lsp VSCode R Langauage Support

Apr 06 - Apr 12, 2020

Database Management

• redux (⭐94) - Redis client for R.

Machine Learning

• 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

Mar 09 - Mar 15, 2020

2019

• ggforce (⭐916) - ggplot2 extension framework

• rayshader (⭐2.1k) - 2D and 3D data visualizations via rgl

Integrated Development Environments

• RStudio - A powerful and productive user interface for R. Works great on Windows, Mac, and Linux.

• IRkernel (⭐1.7k) - R kernel for Jupyter.

• radian (⭐2k) (formerly rtichoke) - A modern R console with syntax highlighting.

Syntax

• magrittr (⭐959) - Let's pipe it.

Data Manipulation

• 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.

• broom (⭐19) - Convert statistical analysis objects into tidy data frames.

• stringi (⭐305) - ICU based string processing package.

• stringr (⭐609) - Consistent API for string processing, built on top of stringi.

Graphic Displays

• ggplot2 (⭐6.6k) - An implementation of the Grammar of Graphics.

• idendro (⭐9) - interactive exploration of dendrograms (trees of hierarchical clustering).

2017 / Book/monograph Lists and Reviews

• hrbrthemes (⭐1.2k) - 🔏 Opinionated, typographic-centric ggplot2 themes and theme components

• Patchwork (⭐2.5k) - Combine separate ggplots into the same graphic.

• utf8 (⭐113) - Manipulating and printing UTF-8 text that fixes multiple bugs in R's UTF-8 handling.

• covr (⭐337) - Test coverage reports for R

• lintr (⭐1.2k) - Static Code Analysis for R

• 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

• 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.

• 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

2018 / Book/monograph Lists and Reviews

• r2d3 - R Interface to D3 Visualizations

• promises - Abstractions for Promise-Based Asynchronous Programming

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

• fable (⭐564) - univariate and multivariate time series forecasting models

• rstats-ed (⭐453) - List of courses teaching R

• tinytex - A lightweight and easy-to-maintain LaTeX distribution

HTML Widgets

• DiagrammeR (⭐1.7k) - Create JS graph diagrams and flowcharts in R.

• formattable (⭐696) - Formattable Data Structures.

• ggvis (⭐713) - Interactive grammar of graphics for R.

• plotly (⭐2.6k) - Interactive ggplot2 and Shiny plotting with plot.ly.

• rCharts (⭐1.2k) - Interactive JS Charts from R.

• echarts4r (⭐602) - R wrapper to Echarts version 4

Reproducible Research

• knitr (⭐2.4k) - Easy dynamic report generation in R.

• rmarkdown - Dynamic documents for R.

• slidify (⭐844) - Generate reproducible html5 slides from R markdown.

• texreg (⭐113) - Formatting statistical models in LaTex and HTML.

• kable - Build fancy HTML or 'LaTeX' tables using 'kable()' from 'knitr'.

Web Technologies and Services

• shiny (⭐5.4k) - Easy interactive web applications with R. See also awesome-rshiny (⭐805)

• httr (⭐986) - User-friendly RCurl wrapper.

• 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.

Parallel Computing

• 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.

High Performance

• Rcpp - Rcpp provides a powerful API on top of R, make function in R extremely faster.

Machine Learning

• AnomalyDetection (⭐3.6k) - AnomalyDetection R package from Twitter.

• BreakoutDetection (⭐755) - Breakout Detection via Robust E-Statistics from Twitter.

• CausalImpact (⭐1.7k) - Causal inference using Bayesian structural time-series models.

• caret - Classification and Regression Training

• prophet (⭐19k) - Tool for producing high quality forecasts for time series data that has multiple seasonality with linear or non-linear growth.

• glmnet - Lasso and elastic-net regularized generalized linear models

• h2o - Deeplearning, Random forests, GBM, KMeans, PCA, GLM

• lme4 (⭐626) - Mixed-effects models

• Machine Learning For Hackers (⭐3.7k)

• MXNet (⭐21k) - MXNet brings flexible and efficient GPU computing and state-of-art deep learning to R.

• survminer (⭐509) - Survival Analysis & Visualization

• survival - Survival Analysis

• xgboost (⭐572) - eXtreme Gradient Boosting Tree model, well known for its speed and performance.

Bayesian

• rstan - R interface to the Stan MCMC software.

Finance

• quantmod - Quantitative Financial Modelling & Trading Framework for R.

• zoo - S3 Infrastructure for Regular and Irregular Time Series.

Bioinformatics and Biostatistics

• Bioconductor - Tools for the analysis and comprehension of high-throughput genomic data.

Network Analysis

• igraph - A collection of network analysis tools.

• tidygraph (⭐547) - A tidy API for graph manipulation

Spatial

• tmap (⭐12) - R package for thematic maps

R Development

• 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.

• Rocker - R configurations for Docker.

Data Packages

• 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.

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.

Websites / Manuals

• 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

Websites / Tools and References

• CRAN Task Views - Task Views for CRAN packages.

Websites / News and Info

• 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.

Books / 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.

• 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.

Books / Book/monograph Lists and Reviews

• R Books List (⭐243) - List of R Books.

Jun 17 - Jun 23, 2019

Graphic Displays

• ggstatsplot (⭐2k) - ggplot2 Based Plots with Statistical Details

Jun 03 - Jun 09, 2019

Reproducible Research

• redoc (⭐514) - Reversible Reproducible Documents

Finance

• pedquant - Public Economic Data and Quantitative Analysis

May 27 - Jun 02, 2019

Data Manipulation

• snakecase (⭐147) - Automatically parse and convert strings into cases like snake or camel among others.

• DataExplorer (⭐513) - Fast exploratory data analysis with minimum code.

Graphic Displays

• plot3D - Plotting Multi-Dimensional Data

• plot3Drgl - Plotting Multi-Dimensional Data - Using 'rgl'

Reproducible Research

• 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.

• R Suite - A package to design flexible and reproducible deployment workflows for R.

Bioinformatics and Biostatistics

• glmmTMB - Generalized mixed-effects models, handling user-specified matrix of residual covariance, relevant for the anaysis of repeated observations in longitudinal trials.

• 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.

Finance

• scorecard (⭐161) - Credit Risk Scorecard

Spatial

• GWmodel - Geographically-Weighted Models

Other Tools

• Conda - Most R packages are available through the Conda polyglot cross-platform dependency manager.

Websites / 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.

• rnotebook.io - Create online R Jupyter Notebooks for free.

R Ecosystems / Book/monograph Lists and Reviews

• rOpenGov Open government data, computational social science, digital humanities

• rOpenHealth Public health data

• rOpenSci Open science

Mar 04 - Mar 10, 2019

Integrated Development Environments

• 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.

Database Management

• RPostgres (⭐334) - an DBI-compliant interface to the postgres database.

• RCassandra - Direct interface (not Java) to the most basic functionality of Apache Cassandra.

Machine Learning

• anomalize (⭐339) - Tidy Anomaly Detection using Twitter's AnomalyDetection method.

• L0Learn - Fast algorithms for best subset selection

Data Packages

• gapminder (⭐289) - Excerpt from the Gapminder dataset (data about countries through the past 50 years).

Nov 12 - Nov 18, 2018

Spatial

• sf - Improved Classes and Methods for Spatial Data.

Nov 05 - Nov 11, 2018

Integrated Development Environments

• RKWard - An extensible IDE/GUI for R.

Data Manipulation

• lubridate (⭐734) - A set of functions to work with dates and times.

• bigmemory (⭐126) - Shared memory and memory-mapped matrices. The big* packages provide additional tools including linear models (biglm) and Random Forests (bigrf (⭐91)).

Graphic Displays

• lattice (⭐68) - A powerful and elegant high-level data visualization system.

• animation (⭐206) - A simple way to produce animated graphics in R, using ImageMagick.

• waffle (⭐778) - 🍁 Make waffle (square pie) charts in R.

• dendextend (⭐153) - visualizing, adjusting and comparing trees of hierarchical clustering.

HTML Widgets

• heatmaply (⭐380) - Interactive heatmaps with D3.

• d3heatmap (⭐236) - Interactive heatmaps with D3 (no longer maintained).

Reproducible Research

• tinytex (⭐995) - A lightweight and easy-to-maintain LaTeX distribution

Web Technologies and Services

• curl (⭐220) - A Modern and Flexible Web Client for R.

Database Management

• odbc (⭐392) - Connect to ODBC databases (using the DBI interface)

Machine Learning

• ranger (⭐779) - A Fast Implementation of Random Forests.

R Development

• sinew (⭐166) - Generate roxygen2 skeletons populated with information scraped from the function script.

Apr 16 - Apr 22, 2018

Reference Cards / Book/monograph Lists and Reviews

• RStudio Cheat Sheets

Jan 22 - Jan 28, 2018

HTML Widgets

• highcharter (⭐723) - R wrapper for highcharts based on htmlwidgets

Spatial

• tigris (⭐325) - Download and use Census TIGER/Line shapefiles in R

Nov 13 - Nov 19, 2017

Reproducible Research

• brew - Pre-compute data to enhance your report templates. Can be combined with knitr.

High Performance

• compiler - speeding up your R code using the JIT

Machine Learning

• FSelector - A feature selection framework, based on subset-search or feature ranking approches.

R Development

• RStudio Addins (⭐845) - List of RStudio addins.

Oct 30 - Nov 05, 2017

Language API

• JuliaCall (⭐269) - Seamless Integration Between R and Julia.

Oct 02 - Oct 08, 2017

Database Management

• RMariaDB (⭐132) - An R interface to MariaDB (a replacement for the old RMySQL package)

Sep 25 - Oct 01, 2017

2017 / Book/monograph Lists and Reviews

• awesome-rshiny (⭐805)

Jun 05 - Jun 11, 2017

Web Technologies and Services

• shinyjs (⭐738) - Easily improve the user interaction and user experience in your Shiny apps in seconds.

May 15 - May 21, 2017

Optimization

• lpSolve - Interface to Lp_solve to Solve Linear/Integer Programs.

• 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.

Mar 27 - Apr 02, 2017

Integrated Development Environments

• Radiant - A platform-independent browser-based interface for business analytics in R, based on the Shiny.

Graphic Displays

• ggtech (⭐391) - ggplot2 tech themes and scales

Mar 13 - Mar 19, 2017

Podcasts / Book/monograph Lists and Reviews

• R Weekly - Weekly news updates about the R community.

Feb 06 - Feb 12, 2017

Parallel Computing

• batchtools - High performance computing with LSF, TORQUE, Slurm, OpenLava, SGE and Docker Swarm.

Database Management

• RNeo4j (⭐239) - Neo4j graph database driver.

• rpostgis (⭐78) - R interface to PostGIS database and get spatial objects in R.

Dec 26 - Jan 01, 2016

Natural Language Processing

• tidytext - Implementing tidy principles of Hadley Wickham to text mining.

Dec 19 - Dec 25, 2016

Spatial

• Leaflet - One of the most popular JavaScript libraries interactive maps.

• CRAN Task View: Analysis of Spatial Data- Spatial Analysis related resources.

• ggmap (⭐770) - Plotting maps in R with ggplot2.

• REmap (⭐257) - R interface to the JavaScript library ECharts for interactive map data visualization.

• 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

HTML Widgets

• wordcloud2 (⭐396) - R interface to wordcloud2.js.

Books / Paid

• Learning R Programming - Learning R as a programming language from basics to advanced topics.

Nov 14 - Nov 20, 2016

Machine Learning

• Rsomoclu - Parallel implementation of self-organizing maps.

Oct 03 - Oct 09, 2016

Web Technologies and Services

• plumber (⭐1.4k) - A library to expose existing R code as web API.

Sep 26 - Oct 02, 2016

Data Manipulation

• tidyverse (⭐1.7k) - Easily install and load packages from the tidyverse.

Parallel Computing

• sparklyr - R interface for Apache Spark from RStudio.

Jul 25 - Jul 31, 2016

HTML Widgets

• timevis (⭐662) - Create fully interactive timeline visualizations.

Network Analysis

• visNetwork (⭐545) - Using vis.js library for network visualization.

Reproducible Research

• ezknitr (⭐113) - Avoid the typical working directory pain when using 'knitr'

Jun 20 - Jun 26, 2016

Network Analysis

• netdiffuseR (⭐86) - Tools for Analysis of Network Diffusion.

Jun 13 - Jun 19, 2016

Graphic Displays

• ggfortify (⭐528) - A unified interface to ggplot2 popular statistical packages using one line of code.

• corrplot (⭐319) - A graphical display of a correlation matrix or general matrix. It also contains some algorithms to do matrix reordering.

Data Packages

• engsoccerdata (⭐761) - English and European soccer results 1871-2016.

Jun 06 - Jun 12, 2016

Natural Language Processing

• MonkeyLearn (⭐93) - 🐒 R package for text analysis with Monkeylearn 🐒.

May 23 - May 29, 2016

Graphic Displays

• ggtree (⭐848) - Visualization and annotation of phylogenetic tree.

R Development

• staticdocs (⭐722) - Generate static html documentation for an R package.

May 09 - May 15, 2016

Reproducible Research

• checkpoint (⭐164) - Install packages from snapshots on the checkpoint server.

Web Technologies and Services

• RSiteCatalyst (⭐127) - R client library for the Adobe Analytics.

Network Analysis

• rgexf - Export network objects from R to GEXF, for manipulation with network software like Gephi or Sigma.

Podcasts / Book/monograph Lists and Reviews

• 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.

May 02 - May 08, 2016

Lists / Book/monograph Lists and Reviews

• RStudio Addins (⭐845) - List of RStudio addins.

Apr 25 - May 01, 2016

Web Technologies and Services

• Web Technologies List (⭐175) - Information about how to use R and the world wide web together.

Natural Language Processing

• Topic Models Resources (⭐228) - Topic Models learning and R related resources.

• NLP for - NLP related resources in R. @Chinese

Network Analysis

• Network Analysis List (⭐3.6k) - Network Analysis related resources.

R Development

• Package Development List (⭐42) - R packages to improve package development.

Lists / Book/monograph Lists and Reviews

• Natural Language Processing - NLP related resources in R. @Chinese

• Open Data (⭐199) - Using R to obtain, parse, manipulate, create, and share open data.

• Package Development (⭐42) - R packages to improve package development.

• RStartHere (⭐664) - A guide to some of the most useful R packages, organized by workflow.

• Web Technologies (⭐175) - Information about how to use R and the world wide web together.

Apr 18 - Apr 24, 2016

Data Manipulation

• fuzzyjoin (⭐671) - Join tables together on inexact matching.

Other Interpreters

• CXXR - Refactorising R into C++.

• 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.

• TERR - TIBCO Enterprise Runtime for R.

Apr 11 - Apr 17, 2016

Lists / Book/monograph Lists and Reviews

• ggplot2 Extensions - Showcases of ggplot2 extensions.

• Books (⭐243) - List of R Books.

• Network Analysis (⭐3.6k) - Network Analysis related resources.

• R Project Conferences - Information about useR! Conferences and DSC Conferences.

• Topic Models (⭐228) - Topic Models learning and R related resources.

Apr 04 - Apr 10, 2016

Reproducible Research

• bookdown - Authoring Books with R Markdown.

Mar 28 - Apr 03, 2016

Natural Language Processing

• text2vec (⭐852) - Fast Text Mining Framework for Vectorization and Word Embeddings.

• quanteda (⭐844) - R functions for Quantitative Analysis of Textual Data.

Mar 07 - Mar 13, 2016

Integrated Development Environments

• RTVS - R Tools for Visual Studio.

Feb 08 - Feb 14, 2016

Graphic Displays

• gganimate (⭐2k) - Create easy animations with ggplot2.

Jan 25 - Jan 31, 2016

Natural Language Processing

• SnowballC - Snowball stemmers based on the C libstemmer UTF-8 library.

Optimization

• minqa - Derivative-free optimization algorithms by quadratic approximation.

• nloptr - NLopt is a free/open-source library for nonlinear optimization.

Other Tools

• git2r (⭐215) - Gives you programmatic access to Git repositories from R.

Jan 04 - Jan 10, 2016

Graphic Displays

• ggrepel (⭐1.2k) - Repel overlapping text labels away from each other.

• ggalt (⭐666) - Extra Coordinate Systems, Geoms and Statistical Transformations for ggplot2.

Nov 23 - Nov 29, 2015

Parallel Computing

• ddR (⭐118) - Provides distributed data structures and simplifies distributed computing in R.

Oct 26 - Nov 01, 2015

Parallel Computing

• DistributedR (⭐163) - A scalable high-performance platform from HP Vertica Analytics Team.

Oct 19 - Oct 25, 2015

HTML Widgets

• scatterD3 (⭐160) - Interactive scatterplots with D3.

Oct 12 - Oct 18, 2015

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.

Websites / Manuals

• tryR - A quick course for getting started with R.

MOOCs / Book/monograph Lists and Reviews

• Explore Statistics with R - Covers introduction, data handling and statistical analysis in R.

Sep 28 - Oct 04, 2015

Syntax

• purrr (⭐1.3k) - A FP package for R in the spirit of underscore.js.

Graphic Displays

• 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.

Sep 21 - Sep 27, 2015

R Development

• import (⭐222) - An import mechanism for R.

Sep 14 - Sep 20, 2015

Web Technologies and Services

• Rfacebook (⭐350) - Access to Facebook API via R.

Sep 07 - Sep 13, 2015

Integrated Development Environments

• TextMate + r.tmblundle (⭐25) - Add-on package for TextMate 1/2.

• Deducer - A Menu driven data analysis GUI with a spreadsheet like data editor.

HTML Widgets

• networkD3 - D3 JavaScript Network Graphs from R.

• threejs (⭐303) - Interactive 3D scatter plots and globes.

Reproducible Research

• xtable - Export tables to LaTeX or HTML.

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.

Language API

• RinRuby - a Ruby library that integrates the R interpreter in Ruby.

• RcppOctave (⭐18) - Seamless Interface to Octave and Matlab.

Database Management

• RHive (⭐122) - R extension facilitating distributed computing via Apache Hive.

Natural Language Processing

• 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.

Network Analysis

• network - Basic tools to manipulate relational data in R.

• sna - Basic network measures and visualization tools.

• 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.

Other Interpreters

• fastR - FastR is an implementation of the R Language in Java atop Truffle and Graal.

Books / Paid

• 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.

MOOCs / Book/monograph Lists and Reviews

• Johns Hopkins University Data Science Specialization - 9 courses including: Introduction to R, literate analysis tools, Shiny and some more.

Aug 03 - Aug 09, 2015

HTML Widgets

• DataTables - Displays R matrices or data frames as interactive HTML tables.

• MetricsGraphics - Enables easy creation of D3 scatterplots, line charts, and histograms.

Jul 27 - Aug 02, 2015

R Development

• drat (⭐153) - Creation and use of R repositories on GitHub or other repos.

Jul 06 - Jul 12, 2015

Machine Learning

• ahaz - Regularization for semiparametric additive hazards regression.

• Clever Algorithms For Machine Learning (⭐239)

• e1071 - Misc Functions of the Department of Statistics (e1071), TU Wien

• kohonen - Supervised and Unsupervised Self-Organising Maps.

• randomForest - randomForest: Breiman and Cutler's random forests for classification and regression.

• randomForestSRC - randomForestSRC: Random Forests for Survival, Regression and Classification (RF-SRC).

• rattle - Graphical user interface for data mining in R.

• SuperLearner (⭐271) and subsemble - Multi-algorithm ensemble learning packages.

Jun 15 - Jun 21, 2015

Natural Language Processing

• LDAvis (⭐557) - Interactive visualization of topic models.

Jun 01 - Jun 07, 2015

High Performance

• Rcpp11 (⭐78) - Rcpp11 is a complete redesign of Rcpp, targetting C++11.

May 11 - May 17, 2015

Integrated Development Environments

• StatET - An Eclipse based IDE for R.

May 04 - May 10, 2015

Graphic Displays

• Cairo - R graphics device using cairo graphics library for creating high-quality display output.

Reproducible Research

• Sweave - A package designed to write LaTeX reports using R.

Database Management

• elastic (⭐245) - Wrapper for the Elasticsearch HTTP API

• mongolite (⭐286) - Streaming Mongo Client for R

Natural Language Processing

• NLP - Basic functions for Natural Language Processing.

R Development

• installr (⭐272) - Functions for installing softwares from within R (for Windows).

MOOCs / Book/monograph Lists and Reviews

• HarvardX Biomedical Data Science - Introduction to R for the Life Sciences.

Apr 27 - May 03, 2015

Data Manipulation

• ff - Data structures designed to store large datasets.

HTML Widgets

• rbokeh - R Interface to Bokeh.

Language API

• jvmr (⭐16) - Integration of R, Java, and Scala.

• rpy2 - Python interface for R.

Bioinformatics and Biostatistics

• pheatmap - Pretty heatmaps made easy.

Jan 26 - Feb 01, 2015

Syntax

• pipeR (⭐169) - Multi-paradigm Pipeline Implementation.

• lambda.r (⭐216) - Functional programming and simple pattern matching in R.

Data Manipulation

• rlist (⭐204) - A toolbox for non-tabular data manipulation with lists.

Database Management

• rmongodb (⭐53) - R driver for MongoDB.

Jan 12 - Jan 18, 2015

Language API

• htmlwidgets - Bring the best of JavaScript data visualization to R.

Dec 15 - Dec 21, 2014

Language API

• V8 (⭐201) - Embedded JavaScript Engine.

Dec 08 - Dec 14, 2014

HTML Widgets

• dygraphs (⭐365) - Charting time-series data in R.

Oct 27 - Nov 02, 2014

Bayesian

• rjags - R interface to the JAGS MCMC library.

Sep 15 - Sep 21, 2014

Other Interpreters

• riposte (⭐90) - a fast interpreter and JIT for R.

Aug 11 - Aug 17, 2014

Reference Cards / Book/monograph Lists and Reviews

• 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.

Aug 04 - Aug 10, 2014

Parallel Computing

• Rmpi - Rmpi provides an interface (wrapper) to MPI APIs. It also provides interactive R slave environment.

Language API

• rJava - Low-level R to Java interface.

• 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.

• R.matlab - Read and write of MAT files together with R-to-MATLAB connectivity.

• RSPerl - A bidirectional interface for calling R from Perl and Perl from R.

Natural Language Processing

• 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.

Jul 28 - Aug 03, 2014

Reproducible Research

• rapport - An R templating system.

Machine Learning

• arules - Mining Association Rules and Frequent Itemsets

• bmrm - Bundle Methods for Regularized Risk Minimization Package

• Boruta - A wrapper algorithm for all-relevant feature selection

• bst - Gradient Boosting

• C50 - C5.0 Decision Trees and Rule-Based Models

• Cubist - Rule- and Instance-Based Regression Modeling

• earth - Multivariate Adaptive Regression Spline Models

• elasticnet - Elastic-Net for Sparse Estimation and Sparse PCA

• evtree - Evolutionary Learning of Globally Optimal Trees

• frbs - Fuzzy Rule-based Systems for Classification and Regression Tasks

• gamboostLSS - Boosting Methods for GAMLSS

• gbm - Generalized Boosted Regression Models

• GMMBoost - Likelihood-based Boosting for Generalized mixed models

• grplasso - Fitting user specified models with Group Lasso penalty

• hda - Heteroscedastic Discriminant Analysis

• ipred - Improved Predictors

• klaR - Classification and visualization

• 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

• LogicReg - Logic Regression

• maptree - Mapping, pruning, and graphing tree models

• mboost - Model-Based Boosting

• mvpart - Multivariate partitioning

• 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

• penalizedLDA - Penalized classification using Fisher's linear discriminant

• penalizedSVM - Feature Selection SVM using penalty functions

• rda - Shrunken Centroids Regularized Discriminant Analysis

• rdetools - Relevant Dimension Estimation (RDE) in Feature Spaces

• relaxo - Relaxed Lasso

• rgenoud - R version of GENetic Optimization Using Derivatives

• rgp - R genetic programming framework

• 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

• RWeka - R/Weka interface

• sda - Shrinkage Discriminant Analysis and CAT Score Variable Selection

• SDDA - Stepwise Diagonal Discriminant Analysis

• svmpath - svmpath: the SVM Path algorithm

• tgp - Bayesian treed Gaussian process models

• tree - Classification and regression trees

• varSelRF - Variable selection using random forests

Bayesian

• 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.

Finance

• TTR - Functions and data to construct technical trading rules with R.

• PerformanceAnalytics - Econometric tools for performance and risk analysis.

• xts - eXtensible Time Series.

• tseries - Time series analysis and computational finance.

• fAssets - Analysing and Modelling Financial Assets.

Bioinformatics and Biostatistics

• 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.

Jul 21 - Jul 27, 2014

Integrated Development Environments

• Emacs + ESS - Emacs Speaks Statistics is an add-on package for emacs text editors.

• R Commander - A package that provides a basic graphical user interface.

Data Manipulation

• tidyr (⭐1.4k) - Easily tidy data with spread and gather functions.

Graphic Displays

• rgl - 3D visualization device system for R.

• extrafont (⭐317) - Tools for using fonts in R graphics.

• showtext (⭐481) - Enable R graphics device to show text using system fonts.

Web Technologies and Services

• RCurl - General network (HTTP/FTP/...) client interface for R.

• httpuv (⭐229) - HTTP and WebSocket server library.

Database Management

• RODBC - ODBC database access for R.

• DBI (⭐300) - Defines a common interface between the R and database management systems.

• RMySQL - R interface to the MySQL database.

• ROracle - OCI based Oracle database interface for R.

• RPostgreSQL - R interface to the PostgreSQL database system.

• RSQLite - SQLite interface for R

• RJDBC - Provides access to databases through the JDBC interface.

Machine Learning

• bigrf - Big Random Forests: Classification and Regression Forests for Large Data Sets

• bigRR - Generalized Ridge Regression (with special advantage for p >> n cases)

• CORElearn - Classification, regression, feature evaluation and ordinal evaluation

• CoxBoost - Cox models by likelihood based boosting for a single survival endpoint or competing risks

• 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

• GAMBoost - Generalized linear and additive models by likelihood based boosting

• glmpath - L1 Regularization Path for Generalized Linear Models and Cox Proportional Hazards Model

• grpreg - Regularization paths for regression models with grouped covariates

• kernlab - kernlab: Kernel-based Machine Learning Lab

• ncvreg - Regularization paths for SCAD- and MCP-penalized regression models

• penalized - L1 (lasso and fused lasso) and L2 (ridge) penalized estimation in GLMs and in the Cox model

• quantregForest - quantregForest: Quantile Regression Forests

• REEMtree - Regression Trees with Random Effects for Longitudinal (Panel) Data

• 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

• RSNNS - Neural Networks in R using the Stuttgart Neural Network Simulator (SNNS)

• RXshrink - RXshrink: Maximum Likelihood Shrinkage via Generalized Ridge or Least Angle Regression

R Development

• lineprof (⭐105) - Visualise line profiling results in R.

Websites / Manuals

• R-project - The R Project for Statistical Computing.

2017 / Book/monograph Lists and Reviews

• awesome-awesomeness (⭐32k)

• lists (⭐10k)