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• Cookbook Polars for R

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

• ggforce - ggplot2 extension framework
• rayshader - 2D and 3D data visualizations via rgl
• vroom - Fast reading of delimited files

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 - Add-on package for Sublime Text 2/3.
• TextMate + r.tmblundle - 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 - 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 - 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 (formerly rtichoke) - A modern R console with syntax highlighting.
• RKWard - An extensible IDE/GUI for R.

Packages change the way you use R.

• magrittr - Let's pipe it.
• pipeR - Multi-paradigm Pipeline Implementation.
• lambda.r - Functional programming and simple pattern matching in R.
• purrr - A FP package for R in the spirit of underscore.js.

Packages for cooking data.

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

Packages for reading and writing data of different formats.

• arrow - An interface to the Arrow C++ library.
• feather - 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 - Improved methods to import SPSS, Stata and SAS files in R.
• jsonlite - A robust and quick way to parse JSON files in R.
• qs - Quick serialization of R objects.
• readxl - Read excel files (.xls and .xlsx) into R.
• readr - A fast and friendly way to read tabular data into R.
• rio - A Swiss-Army Knife for Data I/O.
• readODS - Read OpenDocument Spreadsheets into R as data.frames.
• RcppTOML - Rcpp Bindings to C++ parser for TOML files.
• vroom - Fast reading of delimited files.
• writexl - Portable, light-weight data frame to xlsx exporter for R.
• yaml - R package for converting objects to and from YAML.

Packages for showing data.

• ggplot2 - An implementation of the Grammar of Graphics.
• ggfortify - A unified interface to ggplot2 popular statistical packages using one line of code.
• ggrepel - Repel overlapping text labels away from each other.
• ggalt - Extra Coordinate Systems, Geoms and Statistical Transformations for ggplot2.
• ggstatsplot - ggplot2 Based Plots with Statistical Details
• ggtree - Visualization and annotation of phylogenetic tree.
• ggtech - ggplot2 tech themes and scales
• ggplot2 Extensions - Showcases of ggplot2 extensions.
• lattice - A powerful and elegant high-level data visualization system.
• corrplot - 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 - Tools for using fonts in R graphics.
• showtext - Enable R graphics device to show text using system fonts.
• animation - A simple way to produce animated graphics in R, using ImageMagick.
• gganimate - 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 - 🔏 Opinionated, typographic-centric ggplot2 themes and theme components.
• waffle - 🍁 Make waffle (square pie) charts in R.
• dendextend - visualizing, adjusting and comparing trees of hierarchical clustering.
• idendro - interactive exploration of dendrograms (trees of hierarchical clustering).
• r2d3 - R Interface to D3 Visualizations
• Patchwork - Combine separate ggplots into the same graphic.
• plot3D - Plotting Multi-Dimensional Data
• plot3Drgl - Plotting Multi-Dimensional Data - Using 'rgl'
• httpgd - Asynchronous http server graphics device for R.

Packages for interactive visualizations.

• heatmaply - Interactive heatmaps with D3.
• d3heatmap - Interactive heatmaps with D3 (no longer maintained).
• DataTables - Displays R matrices or data frames as interactive HTML tables.
• DiagrammeR - Create JS graph diagrams and flowcharts in R.
• dygraphs - Charting time-series data in R.
• formattable - Formattable Data Structures.
• ggvis - 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 - Interactive scatterplots with D3.
• plotly - Interactive ggplot2 and Shiny plotting with plot.ly.
• rCharts - Interactive JS Charts from R.
• rbokeh - R Interface to Bokeh.
• threejs - Interactive 3D scatter plots and globes.
• timevis - Create fully interactive timeline visualizations.
• visNetwork - Using vis.js library for network visualization.
• wordcloud2 - R interface to wordcloud2.js.
• highcharter - R wrapper for highcharts based on htmlwidgets
• echarts4r - R wrapper to Echarts version 4

Packages for literate programming and reproducible workflows.

• knitr - Easy dynamic report generation in R.
• redoc - Reversible Reproducible Documents
• tinytex - 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 - Generate reproducible html5 slides from R markdown.
• Sweave - A package designed to write LaTeX reports using R.
• texreg - Formatting statistical models in LaTex and HTML.
• checkpoint - 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 - 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'.

Packages to surf the web.

• Web Technologies List - Information about how to use R and the world wide web together.
• shiny - Easy interactive web applications with R. See also awesome-rshiny
• shinyjs - Easily improve the user interaction and user experience in your Shiny apps in seconds.
• RCurl - General network (HTTP/FTP/...) client interface for R.
• curl - A Modern and Flexible Web Client for R.
• httr - User-friendly RCurl wrapper.
• httpuv - 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 - 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 - Access to Facebook API via R.
• RSiteCatalyst - R client library for the Adobe Analytics.
• plumber - A library to expose existing R code as web API.
• golem - A framework for building production-grade Shiny apps.

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 - R frontend for Spark.
• DistributedR - A scalable high-performance platform from HP Vertica Analytics Team.
• ddR - 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.

Packages for making R faster.

• Rcpp - Rcpp provides a powerful API on top of R, make function in R extremely faster.
• Rcpp11 - Rcpp11 is a complete redesign of Rcpp, targetting C++11.
• compiler - speeding up your R code using the JIT
• cpp11 - 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.

Packages for other languages.

• rJava - Low-level R to Java interface.
• jvmr - 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 - Run Julia and Bash from R.
• RJulia - R package Call Julia.
• JuliaCall - 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 - Seamless Interface to Octave and Matlab.
• RSPerl - A bidirectional interface for calling R from Perl and Perl from R.
• V8 - Embedded JavaScript Engine.
• htmlwidgets - Bring the best of JavaScript data visualization to R.
• rpy2 - Python interface for R.

Packages for managing data.

• RODBC - ODBC database access for R.
• DBI - Defines a common interface between the R and database management systems.
• elastic - Wrapper for the Elasticsearch HTTP API
• mongolite - Streaming Mongo Client for R
• odbc - Connect to ODBC databases (using the DBI interface)
• RMariaDB - 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 - an DBI-compliant interface to the postgres database.
• RPostgreSQL - R interface to the PostgreSQL database system.
• RSQLite - SQLite interface for R