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Useful Packages

  • CRAN Available Packages by name

  • Default packages

    • R 3.1.0 - 2014 : base, boot, class, cluster, codetools, compiler, datasets, foriegn, graphics, grDevices, grid, KernSmooth, lattice, MASS, Matrix, methods, mgcv, nlme, nnet, parallel, rpart, spatial, splines, stats, stats4, survival, tcltk, tools, utils
  • R Open (Miscrosoft)

  • R markdown / R Notebook : requires evaluate, digest, formatR, highrn markdown, stringr, yaml, Rcpp, htmltools, caTools, bitops, knitr, jsonlite, base64enc, rprojroot, rmarkdown

  • Text Processing : stringr, tm, tau, languageR, scrapeR

  • plotly : D3.JS Charts and Maps for R

  • used @ti : mvoutlier, Design, R.oo, tseries, plotrix

  • TidyVerse: ggplot2, dplyr, readr, tidyr, purr

  • lubridate : Make Dealing with Dates a Little Easier

  • AER, Ecdat

  • XLConnect, xlsReadWrite, foreign, speedR, sas7bdat, SASxport, RODBC

  • Epicalc, msm, alr3, Zelig, sfsmisc

  • R.utils, caroline, memisc, gdata

  • descr : functions to describe weighted categorical variables and functions to facilitate the character encoding conversion of objects.

  • R in Jupyter Notebooks : https://irkernel.github.io/ (repr, IRdisplay, evaluate, crayon, pbdZMQ, devtools, uuid, digest + IRkernel)

  • Great R packages for data import, wrangling and visualization @computerworld

  • Top 100 R packages 2013

  • Quick list of useful packages

  • awesome R

My Package list

Package Use Note Description CRAN Links Dependencies
devtools 1 Tools to Make Developing R Packages Easier devtools stringr
Hmisc 1 Harrel Miscellaneaous : many functions useful for data analysis, high-level graphics, utility operations, functions for computing sample size and power, importing datasets, imputing missing values, advanced table making, variable clustering, character string manipulation, conversion of R objects to LaTeX code, and recoding variables Hmisc
reshape2 1 Flexibly Reshape Data: A Reboot of the Reshape Package reshape2
stringr Simple, Consistent Wrappers for Common String Operations stringr
lessR 1 Less Code, More Results lessR
dplyr 1 A grammar of Data Manipulation, split-apply-combine paradigm for R. A fast, consistent tool for working with data frame like objects, both in memory and out of memory. dplyr
gplots 1 Various R Programming Tools for Plotting Data gplots
ggplot2 1 Create Elegant Data Visualisations Using the Grammar of Graphics. A plotting system for R, which tries to take the good parts of base and lattice graphics and none of the bad parts. ggplot2
ggExtra 1 Add Marginal Histograms and more enhancements to ggplot2 ggExtra
playwith 1 A GUI (GTK+) graphical user interface for editing and interacting with R plots. playwith
car 1 Companion to Applied Regression car
psych 1 Procedures for Psychological, Psychometric, and Personality Research
psy 1
Epi 1 A Package for Statistical Analysis in Epidemiology Epi
corrplot 1 Visualization of a Correlation/General Matrix corrplot
wordcloud 1 Word Clouds
xlsx 1 R functions to read/write/format Excel 2007 and Excel 97/2000/XP/2003 files.
XLConnect 1
descr 1 Descriptive Statistics. Weighted frequency and contingency tables of categorical variables and of the comparison of the mean value of a numerical variable by the levels of a factor, and methods to produce xtable objects of the tables and to plot them. descr
prettyR 1 Pretty Descriptive Stats prettyR
tables 1 Formula-Driven Table Generation, Computes and displays complex tables of summary statistics. tables
xtable 1 Export Tables to LaTeX or HTML xtable
htmlTable 1 Advanced Tables for Markdown/HTML htmlTable
knitr 1 A General-Purpose Package for Dynamic Report Generation in R knitr
rmarkdown 1 Convert R Markdown documents into a variety of formats. rmarkdown
shiny 1 Web Application Framework for R shiny Shiny
shinyjs 1
Rcurl 1 General Network (HTTP/FTP/...) Client Interface for R Rcurl
curl 1
twitteR 1
foreach 0 Provides Foreach Looping Construct for R foreach foreach
base default
boot default Boostrap Functions boot
class default Functions for Classification class
cluster default cluster
codetools default Code Analysis Tools for R codetools
compiler default
datasets default The R Datasets Packages rdoc R datasets
foreign default Reading and writing data stored by some versions of 'Epi Info', 'Minitab', 'S', 'SAS', 'SPSS', 'Stata', 'Systat', 'Weka', and for reading and writing some 'dBase' files foreign
graphics default
grDevices default
grid default rdoc
KernSmooth default Functions for kernel smoothing (and density estimation) KernSmooth
lattice default Trellis Graphics for R lattice
MASS default MASS
Matrix default Matrix
methods default rdoc
mgcv default mgcv
nlme default nlme
nnet default Feed-Forward Neural Networks and Multinomial Log-Linear Models nnet
parallel default
rpart default Recursive Partitioning and Regression Trees rpart
spatial default spatial
splines default
stats default The R Stats Package stat.ethz.ch rdoc
stats4 default Statistical Functions using S4 Classes stat.ethz.ch
survival default survival
tcltk default
tools default rdoc
translations default
utils default

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