Favorite-R

Curated list of interesting and usefule R packages. This list was inspired by Awesome R

• Favorite R
  • Essentials
  • Data Manipulation
  • EDA
  • Visualization
  • Database
  • Reproducible Research
  • Spatial Analysis
  • Natural Language Processing
  • Integrated Development Environment
  • R Development
  • Contributing

Essentials

Essential packages for everyday data analysis and visualization.

• tidyverse - An opinionated collection of R packages designed for data science
• ggplot2 - A data visualization package for R
• dplyr - A data manipulation package for R
• janitor - Simple tools for data cleaning in R
• readr - Read flat files into R
• data.table - Fast data manipulation with short syntax
• lubridate - Make working with dates in R just that little bit easier
• skimr - Provides tidyverse-friendly summary statistics

Data Manipulation

Packages for slicing and dicing data

• tidyverse - An opinionated collection of R packages designed for data science
• dplyr - A data manipulation package for R
• janitor - Simple tools for data cleaning in R
• readr - Read flat files into R
• data.table - Fast data manipulation with short syntax
• stringr - Unglamorous string manipulation in R
• reshape2 - An R package to flexible rearrange, reshape and aggregate data
• googlesheets - Google Spreadsheets R API
• readxl - Read excel files (.xls and .xlsx) into R
• glue - Glue strings to data in R. Small, fast, dependency free interpreted string literals

EDA

Exploratory Data Analysis packages.

• skimr - Provides tidyverse-friendly summary statistics
• summarytools - R Package for quickly and neatly summarizing vectors and dataframes
• visdat - Preliminary Exploratory Visualisation of Data

Visualization

Visualize your data.

• ggplot2 - A data visualization package for R
• hrbrthemes - Opinionated ggplot2 themes and theme components
• ggthemes - More themes and scales for ggplot2
• waffle - Make waffle (square pie) charts in R

Database

Database manipulation packages

• RMySQL - An R interface for MySQL
• RMariaDB - An R interface for MariaDB
• RPostgreSQL - An R interface for PostgreSQL
• RSQLite - An R interface for SQLite
• mongolite - An R interface for MongoDB
• bigrquery - An interface to Google's bigquery from R

Reproducible Research

If you can't reproduce it then it didn't happen

• knitr - Dynamic report generation engine for R
• R Markdown - Fully reproducible Markdown documents for R
• remedy - RStudio Addins to Simplify Markdown Writing

Spatial Analysis

Spatial analysis packages

• leaflet - Package for creating interactive maps in R
• ggmap - A package for plotting maps in R with ggplot2

Natural Language Processing

Packages for Natural Language Processing

• tm - A comprehensive text mining framework for R
• SnowballC - Snowball stemmers based on the C libstemmer UTF-8 library
• syuzhet - Powerful sentiment analysis package for R
• sentimentr - Dictionary based sentiment analysis that considers valence shifters
• wordcloud - Package to create pretty word clouds

Integrated Development Environments

Integrated Development Environment

• RStudio - Powerful open source and commercial IDE for R
• RTVS - R Tools for Visual Studio
• vscode - R plugin for VS Code

R Development

R Development

• devtools - Tools to make an R developer's life easier
• remotes - Install R packages from GitHub, Bitbucket, git, svn repositories, URLs
• here - You are here
• roxygen2 - Quick way to document your R packages
• testthat - Provides an easy way to write unit tests for your code projects

Contributing

Your contributions are always welcome! Please read the contributing guidelines to get started.