My favorite R packages

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

• 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
• gganimate - A Grammar of Animated Graphics
• ggnewscale - Multiple Fill and Color Scales in ‘ggplot2’
• ggrepel - Automatically Position Non-Overlapping Text Labels with ‘ggplot2’
• ggwrap - Wrap A ‘ggplot2’ Plot Over Multiple Rows
• hexSticker - Create Hexagon Sticker in R
• patchwork - The Composer of ggplots
• 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

• ggbeeswarm - Categorical Scatter (Violin Point) Plots
• ggchicklet - Create ‘Chicklet’ (Rounded Segmented Column) Charts
• ggecho - GGplot Stat to Duplicate Elements
• ggfittext - Fit Text Inside a Box in ‘ggplot2’
• ggforce - Accelerating ‘ggplot2’
• ggimage - Use Image in ‘ggplot2’
• ggpol - Visualizing Social Science Data with ‘ggplot2’
• ggridges - Ridgeline Plots in ‘ggplot2’
• ggtext - Improved text rendering support for ggplot2
• ggtexture - Drawing Textured Rectangles and Bars with grid and ggplot2
• ggwordcloud - A Word Cloud Geom for ‘ggplot2’
• treemapify - Draw Treemaps in ‘ggplot2’
• waffle - Create Waffle Chart Visualizations
  • Building Pictograms, Building Waffle Charts
• ungeviz - Tools for visualizing uncertainty with ggplot2
  • Visualizing uncertainty with hypothetical outcomes plots

Themes

• bbplot - Making ggplot Graphics In BBC News Style
• firatheme - A ggplot2 theme using the Fira Sans font
• gameofthrones - Palettes Inspired in the TV Show “Game of Thrones”
• ggexpanse - Theme Elements Based On ‘The Expanse’
• 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
• 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’
• 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
• 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
• icon - SVG icons for R documents
• rmarkdown - Dynamic Documents for R
  • R Markdown: The Definitive Guide

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
• 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
• 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

Statistics

• bigstatsr - Statistical Tools for Filebacked Big Matrices
• caret - Classification and Regression Training
• factominer - Multivariate Exploratory Data Analysis and Data Mining
• mclust - Gaussian Mixture Modelling for Model-Based Clustering, Classification, and Density Estimation
• pqdr - Work with Custom Distribution Functions
• ranger - A Fast Implementation of Random Forests
• PLNmodels - Poisson Lognormal Models

Exploratory data analysis

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

Tidymodel

• broom - Convert Statistical Analysis Objects into Tidy Tibbles
• parsnip - A Common API to Modeling and Analysis Functions
• recipes - Preprocessing Tools to Create Design Matrices
• rsamples - General Resampling Infrastructure
• yardstick - Tidy Characterizations of Model Performance

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

Programming

• attempt - Tools for Defensive Programming
• casewhen - Create Reusable ‘dplyr’ ‘case_when()’ Functions
• crayon - Colored Terminal Output
• furrr - Apply Mapping Functions in Parallel using Futures
• future - Unified Parallel and Distributed Processing in R for Everyone
• 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
• devtools - Tools to Make Developing R Packages Easier
• goodpractice - Advice on R Package Building
• 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

Interactivity

• beepr - Easily Play Notification Sounds on any Platform
• dadjoke - Return a Random Dad Joke
• notifier - Cross Platform Desktop Notifications
• rAmCharts
  • JavaScript Charts Tool
• 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

Web

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

For biology

• bigsnpr - Analysis of Massive SNP Arrays
• phyloseq - Handling and analysis of high-throughput microbiome census data
• yatah - Yet Another TAxonomy Handler

Datasets

• datasaurus - Datasets from the Datasaurus Dozen
• gapminder - Data from Gapminder
• nycflights13 - Flights that Departed NYC in 2013
• prenoms - French Baby Names 1900-2017