My favorite R packages

• Tidyverse
• Visualization
  • News geoms
  • Themes
  • 3D
• Spatial
• Reporting
  • Templates
  • Tables
• Data manipulation
• Statistics
  • Exploratory data analysis
  • Tidymodel
  • Networks and trees
  • Time series
• Programming
• Package developement
• Interactivity
  • Shiny
• Web
  • APIs
  • Mails
• Maths
• For biology
• Datasets

Tidyverse

• dplyr - A Grammar of Data Manipulation
• forcats - Tools for Working with Categorical Variables (Factors)
• ggplot2 - Create Elegant Data Visualisations Using the Grammar of Graphics
• glue - Interpreted String Literals
• lubridate - Make Dealing with Dates a Little Easier
• magrittr - A Forward-Pipe Operator for R
• purrr - Functional Programming Tools
• readr - Read Rectangular Text Data
• readxl - Read Excel Files
• rvest - Easily Harvest (Scrape) Web Pages
• stringr - Simple, Consistent Wrappers for Common String Operations
• tibble - Simple Data Frames
  • Putting square pegs in round holes: Using list-cols in your dataframe
• tidyr - Easily Tidy Data with ‘spread()’ and ‘gather()’ Functions

Visualization

• aplot - Decorate a ‘ggplot’ with Associated Information
• colorscale - Create a Color Scale From a Single Color
• cowplot - Streamlined Plot Theme and Plot Annotations for ‘ggplot2’
• esquisse - Explore and Visualize Your Data Interactively
• extrafont - Tools for Using Fonts
• factoextra - Extract and Visualize the Results of Multivariate Data Analyses
• geofacet - ‘ggplot2’ Faceting Utilities for Geographical Data
• gganimate - A Grammar of Animated Graphics
• gfont - Offline ‘Google’ Fonts for ‘Markdown’ and ‘Shiny’
• ggExtra - Add Marginal Histograms to ‘ggplot2’, and More ‘ggplot2’ Enhancements
• ggfortify - Data Visualization Tools for Statistical Analysis Results
• gghighlight - Highlight Lines and Points in ‘ggplot2’
• ggnewscale - Multiple Fill and Color Scales in ‘ggplot2’
• ggrepel - Automatically Position Non-Overlapping Text Labels with ‘ggplot2’
• ggvegan - ‘ggplot2’ Plots for the ‘vegan’ Package
• ggwrap - Wrap A ‘ggplot2’ Plot Over Multiple Rows
• gridtext - Improved Text Rendering Support for ‘Grid’ Graphics
• hexSticker - Create Hexagon Sticker in R
• patchwork - The Composer of ggplots
• PlaneGeometry
  • Plane Geometry
• scales - Scale Functions for Visualization
• showtext - Using Fonts More Easily in R Graphs
• magick - Advanced Graphics and Image-Processing in R
• rvg - R Graphics Devices for Vector Graphics Output

News geoms

• ComplexUpset - Create Complex UpSet Plots Using ggplot2 Components
• ganttrify - Create beautiful Gantt charts with ggplot2
• ggbeeswarm - Categorical Scatter (Violin Point) Plots
• ggbump - Bump Chart In GGplot
• ggchicklet - Create ‘Chicklet’ (Rounded Segmented Column) Charts
• ggecho - GGplot Stat to Duplicate Elements
• ggfittext - Fit Text Inside a Box in ‘ggplot2’
• ggforce - Accelerating ‘ggplot2’
• gggibbous - Moon Charts, a Pie Chart Alternative
• gghalves - Compose Half-Half Plots Using Your Favourite Geoms
• ggimage - Use Image in ‘ggplot2’
• ggimg - Graphics Layers for Plotting Image Data with ‘ggplot2’
• ggmatrix - Fast processing of matrix heatmap
• ggpattern
  • Geoms with Patterns
• ggpointdensity - A Cross Between a 2D Density Plot and a Scatter Plot
• ggpol - Visualizing Social Science Data with ‘ggplot2’
• ggquadrilateral - Draw arbitrary quadrilaterals in ‘ggplot2’
• ggridges - Ridgeline Plots in ‘ggplot2’
• ggsignif - Significance Brackets for ‘ggplot2’
• ggstance - Horizontal ‘ggplot2’ Components
• ggtext - Improved text rendering support for ggplot2
• ggtexture - Drawing Textured Rectangles and Bars with grid and ggplot2
• ggupset - Combination Matrix Axis for ‘ggplot2’ to Create ‘UpSet’ Plots
• ggwordcloud - A Word Cloud Geom for ‘ggplot2’
• parttree - Simple functions for plotting 2D decision tree partition plots
• shadowtext - Shadow Text Grob and Layer
• superheat - A Graphical Tool for Exploring Complex Datasets Using Heatmaps
• treemapify - Draw Treemaps in ‘ggplot2’
• waffle - Create Waffle Chart Visualizations
  • Building Pictograms, Building Waffle Charts
• weather - Weather Icons
• ungeviz - Tools for visualizing uncertainty with ggplot2
  • Visualizing uncertainty with hypothetical outcomes plots

Themes

• basetheme - Themes for Base Graphics Plots
• bbplot - Making ggplot Graphics In BBC News Style
• firatheme - A ggplot2 theme using the Fira Sans font
• fishualize - Color Palettes Based on Fish Species
• gameofthrones - Palettes Inspired in the TV Show “Game of Thrones”
• ggexpanse - Theme Elements Based On ‘The Expanse’
• ggdark - Dark Mode for ‘ggplot2’ Themes
• ggpomological - Pomological plot themes for ggplot2
• ggpubr - ‘ggplot2’ Based Publication Ready Plots
• ggsci - Scientific Journal and Sci-Fi Themed Color Palettes for ‘ggplot2’
• ggtech - ggplot2 tech themes and scales
• ggthemes - Extra Themes, Scales and Geoms for ‘ggplot2’
• ggthemr - Themes for ggplot2
• harrypotter - Palettes Generated from All “Harry Potter” Movies
• hrbrthemes - Additional Themes, Theme Components and Utilities for ‘ggplot2’
• LaCroixColoR - LaCroix Water Color Palettes
• nationalparkcolors
  • National Park Inspired Color Schemes
• NineteenEightyR - 198R
• paletteer - Comprehensive Collection of Color Palettes
• reasontheme - A Reason Pension Integrity Project ggplot theme
• Rokemon - Pokemon Style Plotting And Data
• see - Visualisation Toolbox for ‘easystats’ and Extra Geoms, Themes and Color Palettes for ‘ggplot2’
• thematic - Unified and Automatic Theming of ‘ggplot2’, ‘lattice’, and ‘base’ R Graphics
• trekcolors - Star Trek Color Palettes
• tvthemes - TV Show Themes and Color Palettes for ‘ggplot2’ Graphics
• urbnthemes - Additional theme and utilities for “ggplot2” in the Urban Institute style
• wesanderson - A Wes Anderson Palette Generator

3D

• gg3D - 3D perspective plots for ggplot2
• rayrender - Build and Raytrace 3D Scenes
• rayshader - Create and Visualize Hillshaded Maps from Elevation Matrices
• rgl - 3D Visualization Using OpenGL
• mschart - Chart Generation for ‘Microsoft Word’ and ‘Microsoft PowerPoint’ Documents

Spatial

• cartography - Thematic Cartography
• countrycode
  • Convert Country Names and Country Codes
• ggsn - North Symbols and Scale Bars for Maps Created with ‘ggplot2’ or ‘ggmap’
• leaflet - Create Interactive Web Maps with the JavaScript ‘Leaflet’ Library
• lwgeom - Bindings to Selected ‘liblwgeom’ Functions for Simple Features
• sf - Simple Features for R

Reporting

• cssgrid - Easy CSS Grid Layout For R Markdown And Shiny
• details - Create Details HTML Tag for Markdown and Package Documentation
• downloadthis - Implement Download Buttons in ‘rmarkdown’
• encryptedRmd - Encrypt Html Reports Using ‘Libsodium’
• flair - Highlight, Annotate, and Format your R Source Code
• grillade - Grid System for the Web
• icon - SVG icons for R documents
• rmarkdown - Dynamic Documents for R
  • R markdown: The Definitive Guide
• tweetrmd - Embed Tweets in R Markdown
• workflowr - A Framework for Reproducible and Collaborative Data Science

Templates

• blogdown - Create Blogs and Websites with R Markdown
• bookdown - Authoring Books and Technical Documents with R Markdown
• distill - ‘R Markdown’ Format for Scientific and Technical Writing
• officer - Manipulation of Microsoft Word and PowerPoint Documents
• omni - RMarkdown template, ggplot2 theme, and table function for OMNI Institute
• particlesjs - Beautiful Background for ‘Shiny’ Applications and ‘RMarkdown’ Documents
• rolldown - R Markdown Output Formats for Storytelling
• thesisdown - An updated R Markdown thesis template using the bookdown package
• tint - ‘tint’ is not ‘Tufte’
• tufte - Tufte’s Styles for R Markdown Documents
• vitae - Curriculum Vitae for R Markdown
• xaringan - Presentation Ninja
• xaringanExtra - Extras And Extensions for Xaringan Slides
• xaringanthemer
  • Xaringan CSS Theme Generator

Tables

• flextable - Functions for Tabular Reporting
• gt - Easily Create Presentation-Ready Display Tables
• kableExtra - Construct Complex Table with ‘kable’ and Pipe Syntax
• rhandsontable - Interface to the ‘Handsontable.js’ Library

Data manipulation

• anytime - Anything to ‘POSIXct’ or ‘Date’ Converter
• batman - Convert categorical representations of logicals to actual logicals
• janitor - Simple Tools for Examining and Cleaning Dirty Data
• poorman - A Poor Man’s Base R Copy of ‘dplyr’ Verbs
• RVerbalExpressions - Create Regular Expressions Easily
• santoku - A Versatile Cutting Tool for R
• slider - Sliding Window Functions

Statistics

• bigstatsr - Statistical Tools for Filebacked Big Matrices
• caret - Classification and Regression Training
• dbscan - Density Based Clustering of Applications with Noise (DBSCAN) and Related Algorithms
• evabic - Evaluation of Binary Classifiers
• factominer - Multivariate Exploratory Data Analysis and Data Mining
• mclust - Gaussian Mixture Modelling for Model-Based Clustering, Classification, and Density Estimation
• mgcv - Mixed GAM Computation Vehicle with Automatic Smoothness Estimation
• mnormt - mnormt: The Multivariate Normal and t Distributions
• pqdr - Work with Custom Distribution Functions
• quantreg - Quantile Regression
• ranger - A Fast Implementation of Random Forests
• PLNmodels - Poisson Lognormal Models

Exploratory data analysis

• DataExplorer - Automate Data Exploration and Treatment
• naniar - Data Structures, Summaries, and Visualisations for Missing Data
• summarytools - Tools to Quickly and Neatly Summarize Data

Tidymodel

• baguette - Efficient Model Functions for Bagging
• broom - Convert Statistical Analysis Objects into Tidy Tibbles
• corrr - Correlations in R
• dials - Tools for Creating Tuning Parameter Values
• discrim - Model Wrappers for Discriminant Analysis
• parsnip - A Common API to Modeling and Analysis Functions
• plsmod - Model Wrappers for Projection Methods
• poissonreg - Model Wrappers for Poisson Regression
• recipes - Preprocessing Tools to Create Design Matrices
• rsamples - General Resampling Infrastructure
• textrecipes - Extra ‘Recipes’ for Text Processing
• themis - Extra Recipes Steps for Dealing with Unbalanced Data
• tune - Tidy Tuning Tools
• yardstick - Tidy Characterizations of Model Performance
• workflows - Modeling Workflows

Networks and trees

• ggraph - An Implementation of Grammar of Graphics for Graphs and Networks
• tidygraph - A Tidy API for Graph Manipulation
• tidytree, treeio and ggtree - Data Integration, Manipulation and Visualization of Phylogenetic Trees
  • Annotate a phylogenetic tree with insets

Time series

• fable - Forecasting Models for Tidy Time Series
• fasster - Fast Additive Switching of Seasonality, Trend and Exogenous Regressors
• feasts - Feature Extraction And Statistics for Time Series
• fpp3 - Data for “Forecasting: Principles and Practice” (3rd Edition)
• prophet - Automatic Forecasting Procedure
• tsibble - Tidy Temporal Data Frames and Tools

Programming

• attempt - Tools for Defensive Programming
• casewhen - Create Reusable ‘dplyr’ ‘case_when()’ Functions
• crayon - Colored Terminal Output
• cyclocomp - Cyclomatic Complexity of R Code
• furrr - Apply Mapping Functions in Parallel using Futures
• future - Unified Parallel and Distributed Processing in R for Everyone
• microbenchmark
  • Accurate Timing Functions
• R6 - Encapsulated Classes with Reference Semantics
• Rcpp - Seamless R and C++ Integration
  • Rcpp for everyone
• renv - Project Environments for R
• rlang - Functions for Base Types and Core R and ‘Tidyverse’ Features
• strict - Make R Just a Little Stricter

Package developement

• attachment - Deal with Dependencies
• chameleon - Build And Highlight Package Documentation With Customized Templates
• covr - Test Coverage for Packages
• deepdep - Visualise and Explore the Deep Dependencies of R Packages
• devtools - Tools to Make Developing R Packages Easier
• goodpractice - Advice on R Package Building
• lifecycle - Manage the Life Cycle of your Package Functions
• pkgdown - Make Static HTML Documentation for a Package
• spelling - Tools for Spell Checking in R
• testthat - Unit Testing for R
• usethis - Automate Package and Project Setup
• vdiffr - Visual Regression Testing and Graphical Diffing

Interactivity

• beepr - Easily Play Notification Sounds on any Platform
• dadjoke - Return a Random Dad Joke
• DT - A Wrapper of the JavaScript Library ‘DataTables’
• notifier - Cross Platform Desktop Notifications
• rAmCharts
  • JavaScript Charts Tool
• reactable - Interactive Data Tables Based on ‘React Table’
• markdownInput - https://github.com/juliendiot42/markdownInput
• supercaliheatmapwidget
  • Supercalifragilistic HTML Calendar Heatmaps
• tictoc - Functions for timing R scripts, as well as implementations of Stack and List structures
• timelineschart - Timelines Chart Htmlwidget
• telegram.bot - Develop a ‘Telegram Bot’ with R

Shiny

• fresh - Fresh ‘Shiny’ Themes
• golem - A Framework for Robust Shiny Applications
• htmlwidgets - HTML Widgets for R
• shinipsum - Lorem-Ipsum-like Helpers for fast Shiny Prototyping
• shiny - Web Application Framework for R
• shinybusy - Busy Indicator for ‘Shiny’ Applications
• shinydashboard - Create Dashboards with ‘Shiny’
• shinypop - Collection of Notifications for ‘Shiny’ Applications
• shinysnippets - RStudio Snippets for Shiny devs
• shinyWidgets - Custom Inputs Widgets for Shiny
• sortable - Drag-and-Drop in ‘shiny’ Apps with ‘SortableJS’
• vov - Shiny CSS Animations
• waiter - Loading Screen for ‘Shiny’

Web

• httr - Tools for Working with URLs and HTTP
• qrencoder - Quick Response Code (QR Code) / Matrix Barcode Creator

APIs

• gh - ‘GitHub’ ‘API’
• rtweet - Collecting Twitter Data
• slackr - Send Messages, Images, R Objects and Files to ‘Slack’ Channels/Users

Mails

• emayili - Send email messages
• ponyexpress - Automate sending email with ‘Gmail’

Maths

• deSolve - Solvers for Initial Value Problems of Differential Equations (‘ODE’, ‘DAE’, ‘DDE’)
• freealg - The Free Algebra
• mvp - Fast Symbolic Multivariate Polynomials

For biology

• bigsnpr - Analysis of Massive SNP Arrays
• phyloseq - Handling and analysis of high-throughput microbiome census data
• tidygenomics - Tidy Verbs for Dealing with Genomic Data Frames
• vegan - Community Ecology Package
• yatah - Yet Another TAxonomy Handler

Datasets

• airparis - Open Data for Air Quality in Ile-de-France
• animalcrossing
  • Animal Crossing data
• coronavirus - The 2019 Novel Coronavirus COVID-19 (2019-nCoV) Dataset
• datasaurus - Datasets from the Datasaurus Dozen
• gapminder - Data from Gapminder
• inca3 - Donnees De L’Etude INCA 3
• nycflights13 - Flights that Departed NYC in 2013
• networkdata - Repository of Network Datasets
• prenoms - French Baby Names 1900-2017
• tdf - Tour de France data
• tidytuesdayR - Access the Weekly TidyTuesday Project Dataset
• tsibbledata - Diverse Datasets for ‘tsibble’