Awesome R

A curated list of awesome R packages and tools. Inspired by  66861⭐  14781🍴 awesome-machine-learning).

for    665⭐    218🍴 Top 50 CRAN downloaded packages or repos with 400+

• Awesome R
  • 2023
  • 2020
  • 2019
  • 2018
  • Integrated Development Environments
  • Syntax
  • Data Manipulation
  • Graphic Displays
  • Html Widgets
  • Reproducible Research
  • Web Technologies and Services
  • Parallel Computing
  • High Performance
  • Language API
  • Database Management
  • Machine Learning
  • Natural Language Processing
  • Bayesian
  • Optimization
  • Finance
  • Bioinformatics and Biostatistics
  • Network Analysis
  • Spatial
  • R Development
  • Logging
  • Data Packages
  • Other Tools
  • Other Interpreters
  • Learning R
• Resources
  • Websites
  • Books
  • Podcasts
  • Reference Cards
  • MOOCs
  • Lists
• Other Awesome Lists
• Contributing

2023

• 🌎 Cookbook Polars for R

2020

• 🌎 VSCode - 🌎 vscode-R + 🌎 vscode-r-lsp VSCode R Langauage Support
•   2065⭐    213🍴 gt) - Easily generate information-rich, publication-quality tables from R
• 🌎 lightgbm - Light Gradient Boosting Machine.
• 🌎 torch - Tensors and Neural Networks with 'GPU' Acceleration.

2019

•    919⭐    105🍴 ggforce) - ggplot2 extension framework
•   2092⭐    214🍴 rayshader) - 2D and 3D data visualizations via rgl
•    625⭐     60🍴 vroom) - 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.
•    112⭐      7🍴 Sublime Text + R-IDE) - Add-on package for Sublime Text 2/3.
•     25⭐      9🍴 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.
•   1672⭐    295🍴 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.
•    974⭐    127🍴 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.
•   2079⭐     77🍴 radian ) (formerly rtichoke) - A modern R console with syntax highlighting.
• 🌎 RKWard - An extensible IDE/GUI for R.

Syntax

Packages change the way you use R.

•    960⭐    158🍴 magrittr ) - Let's pipe it.
•    169⭐     39🍴 pipeR) - Multi-paradigm Pipeline Implementation.
•    217⭐     15🍴 lambda.r) - Functional programming and simple pattern matching in R.
•   1298⭐    276🍴 purrr) - A FP package for R in the spirit of underscore.js.

Data Manipulation

Packages for cooking data.

•   4822⭐   2121🍴 dplyr ) - Fast data frames manipulation and database query.
•   3652⭐    998🍴 data.table ) - Fast data manipulation in a short and flexible syntax.
•    210⭐     56🍴 reshape2 ) - Flexible rearrange, reshape and aggregate data.
•   1390⭐    417🍴 tidyr) - Easily tidy data with spread and gather functions.
•     20⭐      4🍴 broom ) - Convert statistical analysis objects into tidy data frames.
•    204⭐     28🍴 rlist) - A toolbox for non-tabular data manipulation with lists.
• ff - Data structures designed to store large datasets.
•    754⭐    210🍴 lubridate) - A set of functions to work with dates and times.
•    309⭐     47🍴 stringi ) - ICU based string processing package.
•    620⭐    189🍴 stringr ) - Consistent API for string processing, built on top of stringi.
•    127⭐     24🍴 bigmemory) - Shared memory and memory-mapped matrices. The big* packages provide additional tools including linear models (biglm) and Random Forests (    91⭐     26🍴 bigrf)).
•    677⭐     61🍴 fuzzyjoin) - Join tables together on inexact matching.
•   1692⭐    291🍴 tidyverse) - Easily install and load packages from the tidyverse.
•    149⭐      9🍴 snakecase) - Automatically parse and convert strings into cases like snake or camel among others.
•    519⭐     91🍴 DataExplorer) - 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.
•   2740⭐    166🍴 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.
•    426⭐    117🍴 haven) - Improved methods to import SPSS, Stata and SAS files in R.
•    384⭐     41🍴 jsonlite) - A robust and quick way to parse JSON files in R.
•    411⭐     19🍴 qs) - Quick serialization of R objects.
• 🌎 readxl - Read excel files (.xls and .xlsx) into R.
•   1013⭐    286🍴 readr ) - A fast and friendly way to read tabular data into R.
•    605⭐     76🍴 rio) - A Swiss-Army Knife for Data I/O.
•      ?⭐      ?🍴 readODS) - Read OpenDocument Spreadsheets into R as data.frames.
•     36⭐      9🍴 RcppTOML) - Rcpp Bindings to C++ parser for TOML files.
•    625⭐     60🍴 vroom) - Fast reading of delimited files.
• 🌎 writexl - Portable, light-weight data frame to xlsx exporter for R.
•    166⭐     38🍴 yaml) - R package for converting objects to and from YAML.

Graphic Displays

Packages for showing data.

•   6607⭐   2071🍴 ggplot2 ) - An implementation of the Grammar of Graphics.
•    528⭐     65🍴 ggfortify) - A unified interface to ggplot2 popular statistical packages using one line of code.
•   1227⭐     95🍴 ggrepel) - Repel overlapping text labels away from each other.
•    671⭐     98🍴 ggalt) - Extra Coordinate Systems, Geoms and Statistical Transformations for ggplot2.
•   2072⭐    188🍴 ggstatsplot) - ggplot2 Based Plots with Statistical Details
•    858⭐    174🍴 ggtree) - Visualization and annotation of phylogenetic tree.
•    393⭐     61🍴 ggtech) - ggplot2 tech themes and scales
• 🌎 ggplot2 Extensions - Showcases of ggplot2 extensions.
•     68⭐     15🍴 lattice) - A powerful and elegant high-level data visualization system.
•    319⭐     89🍴 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.
•    322⭐     48🍴 extrafont) - Tools for using fonts in R graphics.
•    487⭐     38🍴 showtext) - Enable R graphics device to show text using system fonts.
•    207⭐     58🍴 animation) - A simple way to produce animated graphics in R, using ImageMagick.
•   1957⭐    308🍴 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.
•   1252⭐     95🍴 hrbrthemes) - 🔏 Opinionated, typographic-centric ggplot2 themes and theme components.
•    778⭐     94🍴 waffle) - 🍁 Make waffle (square pie) charts in R.
•    154⭐     29🍴 dendextend) - visualizing, adjusting and comparing trees of hierarchical clustering.
•      9⭐      1🍴 idendro) - interactive exploration of dendrograms (trees of hierarchical clustering).
• 🌎 r2d3 - R Interface to D3 Visualizations
•   2504⭐    162🍴 Patchwork) - Combine separate ggplots into the same graphic.
• plot3D - Plotting Multi-Dimensional Data
• 🌎 plot3Drgl - Plotting Multi-Dimensional Data - Using 'rgl'
•    415⭐     19🍴 httpgd) - Asynchronous http server graphics device for R.

HTML Widgets

Packages for interactive visualizations.

•    382⭐     73🍴 heatmaply) - Interactive heatmaps with D3.
•    237⭐     93🍴 d3heatmap) - Interactive heatmaps with D3 (no longer maintained).
• DataTables - Displays R matrices or data frames as interactive HTML tables.
•   1703⭐    247🍴 DiagrammeR ) - Create JS graph diagrams and flowcharts in R.
•    364⭐    192🍴 dygraphs) - Charting time-series data in R.
•    699⭐     78🍴 formattable ) - Formattable Data Structures.
•    715⭐    170🍴 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.
•    160⭐     22🍴 scatterD3) - Interactive scatterplots with D3.
•   2595⭐    630🍴 plotly ) - Interactive ggplot2 and Shiny plotting with 🌎 plot.ly.
•   1192⭐    654🍴 rCharts ) - Interactive JS Charts from R.
• rbokeh - R Interface to Bokeh.
•    304⭐     59🍴 threejs) - Interactive 3D scatter plots and globes.
•    670⭐    156🍴 timevis) - Create fully interactive timeline visualizations.
•    548⭐    124🍴 visNetwork) - Using vis.js library for network visualization.
•    401⭐    107🍴 wordcloud2) - R interface to wordcloud2.js.
•    726⭐    149🍴 highcharter) - R wrapper for highcharts based on htmlwidgets
•    602⭐     81🍴 echarts4r) - R wrapper to Echarts version 4

Reproducible Research

Packages for literate programming and reproducible workflows.

•   2411⭐    879🍴 knitr ) - Easy dynamic report generation in R.
•    516⭐     44🍴 redoc) - Reversible Reproducible Documents
•   1003⭐    116🍴 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.
•    844⭐    338🍴 slidify ) - Generate reproducible html5 slides from R markdown.
• 🌎 Sweave - A package designed to write LaTeX reports using R.
•    113⭐     42🍴 texreg) - Formatting statistical models in LaTex and HTML.
•    164⭐     38🍴 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.
•    114⭐     12🍴 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'.

Web Technologies and Services

Packages to surf the web.

•    175⭐     66🍴 Web Technologies List) - Information about how to use R and the world wide web together.
•   5418⭐   1871🍴 shiny ) - Easy interactive web applications with R. See also    814⭐    141🍴 awesome-rshiny)
•    741⭐    118🍴 shinyjs) - Easily improve the user interaction and user experience in your Shiny apps in seconds.
• RCurl - General network (HTTP/FTP/...) client interface for R.
•    224⭐     70🍴 curl) - A Modern and Flexible Web Client for R.
•    988⭐   1984🍴 httr ) - User-friendly RCurl wrapper.
•    230⭐     87🍴 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.
•   1498⭐    344🍴 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.
•    351⭐    251🍴 Rfacebook) - Access to Facebook API via R.
•    127⭐     39🍴 RSiteCatalyst) - R client library for the Adobe Analytics.
•   1411⭐    261🍴 plumber) - 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.
•    641⭐    324🍴 SparkR ) - R frontend for Spark.
•    163⭐     54🍴 DistributedR) - A scalable high-performance platform from HP Vertica Analytics Team.
•    118⭐     17🍴 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.

High Performance

Packages for making R faster.

• Rcpp - Rcpp provides a powerful API on top of R, make function in R extremely faster.
•     78⭐     12🍴 Rcpp11) - Rcpp11 is a complete redesign of Rcpp, targetting C++11.
• compiler - speeding up your R code using the JIT
•    211⭐     49🍴 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.

Language API

Packages for other languages.

• rJava - Low-level R to Java interface.
•     16⭐      8🍴 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.
•     89⭐     26🍴 runr) - Run Julia and Bash from R.
•    146⭐     23🍴 RJulia) - R package Call Julia.
•    270⭐     36🍴 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.
•     18⭐      9🍴 RcppOctave) - Seamless Interface to Octave and Matlab.
• RSPerl - A bidirectional interface for calling R from Perl and Perl from R.
•    201⭐     29🍴 V8) - 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.
•    300⭐     74🍴 DBI) - Defines a common interface between the R and database management systems.
•    247⭐     58🍴 elastic) - Wrapper for the Elasticsearch HTTP API
•    286⭐     65🍴 mongolite) - Streaming Mongo Client for R
•    394⭐    108🍴 odbc) - Connect to ODBC databases (using the DBI interface)
•    134⭐     39🍴 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.
•    336⭐     79🍴 RPostgres) - 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.
•     54⭐     24🍴 rmongodb) - R driver for MongoDB.
•     95⭐     17🍴 redux) - Redis client for R.
• RCassandra - Direct interface (not Java) to the most basic functionality of Apache Cassandra.
•    123⭐     63🍴 RHive) - R extension facilitating distributed computing via Apache Hive.
•    238⭐     69🍴 RNeo4j) - Neo4j graph database driver.
•     79⭐     15🍴 rpostgis) - R interface to PostGIS database and get spatial objects in R.

Machine Learning

Packages for making R cleverer.

•    339⭐     61🍴 anomalize) - Tidy Anomaly Detection using Twitter's AnomalyDetection method.
•   3585⭐    777🍴 AnomalyDetection ) - 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
•    756⭐    180🍴 BreakoutDetection ) - Breakout Detection via Robust E-Statistics from Twitter.
• bst - Gradient Boosting
•   1725⭐    255🍴 CausalImpact ) - Causal inference using Bayesian structural time-series models.
• C50 - C5.0 Decision Trees and Rule-Based Models
• caret - Classification and Regression Training
•    239⭐     89🍴 Clever Algorithms For Machine Learning)
• 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) - a collection of commonly used univariate and multivariate time series forecasting models
•  18837⭐   4557🍴 prophet ) - 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.
•    646⭐    150🍴 lme4 ) - 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
•   3673⭐   2220🍴 Machine Learning For Hackers )
•   1651⭐    404🍴 mlr) - Extensible framework for classification, regression, survival analysis and clustering [DEPRECIATED]
•    963⭐     85🍴 mlr3 ) - Next generation extensible framework for classification, regression, survival analysis and clustering
• mvpart - Multivariate partitioning
•  20786⭐   6775🍴 MXNet ) - 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).
•    780⭐    194🍴 ranger) - 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
•    273⭐     73🍴 SuperLearner) and subsemble - Multi-algorithm ensemble learning packages.
•    521⭐    166🍴 survminer) - 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
•    573⭐    261🍴 xgboost ) - eXtreme Gradient Boosting Tree model, well known for its speed and performance.

Natural Language Processing

Packages for Natural Language Processing.

•    855⭐    133🍴 text2vec) - 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.
•    559⭐    131🍴 LDAvis) - 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.
•    851⭐    189🍴 quanteda) - R functions for Quantitative Analysis of Textual Data.
•    228⭐     53🍴 Topic Models Resources) - Topic Models learning and R related resources.
•      ?⭐      ?🍴 NLP for ) - NLP related resources in R. @Chinese
•     93⭐     16🍴 MonkeyLearn) - 🐒 R package for text analysis with Monkeylearn 🐒.
• tidytext - Implementing tidy principles of Hadley Wickham to text mining.
•    113⭐      4🍴 utf8) - 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.
•    163⭐     63🍴 scorecard) - 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.
•    646⭐    150🍴 lme4) - 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.

•   3638⭐    613🍴 Network Analysis List) - 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.
•     88⭐     22🍴 netdiffuseR) - 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.
•    548⭐    124🍴 visNetwork) - Using vis.js library for network visualization.
•    551⭐     61🍴 tidygraph) - 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.
•    770⭐    231🍴 ggmap) - Plotting maps in R with ggplot2.
•    257⭐    128🍴 REmap) - 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
•    198⭐     50🍴 gstat) - Spatial and spatio-temporal geostatistical modelling, prediction and simulation.
•     74⭐     20🍴 spacetime) - R classes and methods for spatio-temporal data.
• 🌎 RColorBrewer - Provides color schemes for maps
•    199⭐     43🍴 spatstat) - Spatial Point Pattern Analysis, Model-Fitting, Simulation, Tests
• 🌎 spdep - Spatial Dependence: Weighting Schemes, Statistics and Models
•    329⭐     45🍴 tigris) - Download and use Census TIGER/Line shapefiles in R
• 🌎 GWmodel - Geographically-Weighted Models
•     13⭐      2🍴 tmap) - R package for thematic maps

R Development

Packages for packages.

•     42⭐      6🍴 Package Development List) - R packages to improve package development.
• 🌎 promises - Abstractions for Promise-Based Asynchronous Programming
•   2418⭐    761🍴 devtools ) - Tools to make an R developer's life easier.
•    898⭐    321🍴 testthat ) - An R package to make testing fun.
•    417⭐     57🍴 R6 ) - simpler, faster, lighter-weight alternative to R's built-in classes.
•    203⭐     43🍴 pryr ) - Make it easier to understand what's going on in R.
•    605⭐    233🍴 roxygen ) - Describe your functions in comments next to their definitions.
•    105⭐     19🍴 lineprof) - Visualise line profiling results in R.
•   1037⭐    153🍴 renv ) - Make your R projects more isolated, portable, and reproducible.
•      ?⭐      ?🍴 installr) - Functions for installing softwares from within R (for Windows).
•      ?⭐      ?🍴 import) - An import mechanism for R.
•    880⭐     48🍴 box ) - A modern module system for R.
• Rocker - R configurations for 🌎 Docker.
•    848⭐    142🍴 RStudio Addins) - List of RStudio addins.
•    154⭐    101🍴 drat) - Creation and use of R repositories on GitHub or other repos.
•    338⭐    119🍴 covr) - Test coverage for your R package and (optionally) upload the results to 🌎 coveralls or 🌎 codecov.
•   1213⭐    186🍴 lintr) - Static code analysis for R to enforce code style.
•    730⭐    336🍴 staticdocs) - Generate static html documentation for an R package.
•    166⭐     15🍴 sinew) - Generate roxygen2 skeletons populated with information scraped from the function script.

Logging

Packages for Logging

•    152⭐     34🍴 futile.logger) - A logging package in R similar to log4j
•     93⭐     22🍴 log4r) - A log4j derivative for R
• 🌎 logging - A logging package emulating the python logging package.

Data Packages

Handy Data Packages

•    761⭐    192🍴 engsoccerdata) - English and European soccer results 1871-2016.
• gapminder - 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.
•      7⭐      2🍴 ICON) - complex systems & networks datasets from the Index of COmplex Networks (ICON) database webpage.
•     14⭐      2🍴 RCOBOLDI) - Import COBOL CopyBook data files directly into R as properly structured data frames. Package builds are available via      1⭐      0🍴 Drat) and 🌎 DockerHub.

Other Tools

Handy Tools for R

•    217⭐     60🍴 git2r) - 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.
•    133⭐     23🍴 rho) - Refactor the interpreter of the R language into a fully-compatible, efficient, VM for R.
•     90⭐     10🍴 riposte) - 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.
•   2025⭐    890🍴 DataScienceR ) - 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

•    245⭐     29🍴 R Books List) - List of R Books.
•   1616⭐    229🍴 Readings in Applied Data Science) - 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.

•    245⭐     29🍴 Books) - List of R Books.
• 🌎 ggplot2 Extensions - Showcases of ggplot2 extensions.
•      ?⭐      ?🍴 Natural Language Processing ) - NLP related resources in R. @Chinese
•   3638⭐    613🍴 Network Analysis) - Network Analysis related resources.
•    199⭐     47🍴 Open Data) - Using R to obtain, parse, manipulate, create, and share open data.
• Posts - Great R blog posts or Rticles.
•     42⭐      6🍴 Package Development) - R packages to improve package development.
• 🌎 R Project Conferences - Information about useR! Conferences and DSC Conferences.
•    665⭐    218🍴 RStartHere) - A guide to some of the most useful R packages, organized by workflow.
•    848⭐    142🍴 RStudio Addins) - List of RStudio addins.
•    228⭐     53🍴 Topic Models) - Topic Models learning and R related resources.
•    175⭐     66🍴 Web Technologies) - 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

•    565⭐     66🍴 fable) - univariate and multivariate time series forecasting models
• 🌎 r2d3 - R Interface to D3 Visualizations
•    453⭐     94🍴 rstats-ed) - List of courses teaching R
• 🌎 promises - Abstractions for Promise-Based Asynchronous Programming
• 🌎 tinytex - A lightweight and easy-to-maintain LaTeX distribution
•   1616⭐    229🍴 Readings in Applied Data Science) - These readings reflect Hadley's personal thoughts about applied data science.

2017

•  18837⭐   4557🍴 prophet) - Tool for producing high quality forecasts for time series data that has multiple seasonality with linear or non-linear growth.
•   1692⭐    291🍴 tidyverse) - Easily install and load packages from the tidyverse
•   1298⭐    276🍴 purrr) - A functional programming toolkit for R
•   1252⭐     95🍴 hrbrthemes) - 🔏 Opinionated, typographic-centric ggplot2 themes and theme components
•   1505⭐    281🍴 xaringan) - Create HTML5 slides with R Markdown and the JavaScript library
•   1752⭐    334🍴 blogdown) - Create Blogs and Websites with R Markdown
•    727⭐     65🍴 glue) - Glue strings to data in R. Small, fast, dependency free interpreted string literals.
•    338⭐    119🍴 covr) - Test coverage reports for R
•   1213⭐    186🍴 lintr) - Static Code Analysis for R
•    742⭐     81🍴 reprex) - Render bits of R code for sharing, e.g., on GitHub or StackOverflow.
•   1688⭐    334🍴 reticulate) - R Interface to Python
•   1330⭐    321🍴 tensorflow) - TensorFlow for R
•    113⭐      4🍴 utf8) - Manipulating and printing UTF-8 text that fixes multiple bugs in R's UTF-8 handling.
•   2504⭐    162🍴 Patchwork) - Combine separate ggplots into the same graphic.

Other Awesome Lists

•  32347⭐   3570🍴 awesome-awesomeness)
•  10162⭐    713🍴 lists)
•    814⭐    141🍴 awesome-rshiny)

Contributing

Your contributions are always welcome!

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License - CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

Source

  6080⭐   1505🍴 qinwf/awesome-R)