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This list was inspired by [Awesome R](https://github.com/qinwf/awesome-R)\n\n- [Favorite R](#favorite-)\n  - [Essentials](#essentials)\n  - [Data Manipulation](#data-manipulation)\n  - [EDA](#eda)\n  - [Visualization](#visualization)\n  - [Database](#database)\n  - [Reproducible Research](#reproducible-research)\n  - [Spatial Analysis](#spatial-analysis)\n  - [Natural Language Processing](#natural-language-processing)\n  - [Integrated Development Environment](#integrated-development-environments)\n  - [R Development](#r-development)\n  - [Contributing](#contributing)\n  \n## Essentials\n*Essential packages for everyday data analysis and visualization.*\n\n* [tidyverse](https://github.com/tidyverse/tidyverse) - An opinionated collection of R packages designed for data science\n* [ggplot2](https://github.com/tidyverse/ggplot2) - A data visualization package for R\n* [dplyr](https://github.com/tidyverse/dplyr) - A data manipulation package for R\n* [janitor](https://github.com/sfirke/janitor) - Simple tools for data cleaning in R\n* [readr](https://github.com/tidyverse/readr) - Read flat files into R\n* [data.table](https://github.com/Rdatatable/data.table) - Fast data manipulation with short syntax\n* [lubridate](https://github.com/tidyverse/lubridate) - Make working with dates in R just that little bit easier\n* [skimr](https://github.com/ropenscilabs/skimr) - Provides tidyverse-friendly summary statistics\n\n## Data Manipulation\n*Packages for slicing and dicing data*\n\n* [tidyverse](https://github.com/tidyverse/tidyverse) - An opinionated collection of R packages designed for data science\n* [dplyr](https://github.com/tidyverse/dplyr) - A data manipulation package for R\n* [janitor](https://github.com/sfirke/janitor) - Simple tools for data cleaning in R\n* [readr](https://github.com/tidyverse/readr) - Read flat files into R\n* [data.table](https://github.com/Rdatatable/data.table) - Fast data manipulation with short syntax\n* [stringr](https://github.com/tidyverse/stringr) - Unglamorous string manipulation in R\n* [reshape2](https://github.com/hadley/reshape) - An R package to flexible rearrange, reshape and aggregate data\n* [googlesheets](https://github.com/jennybc/googlesheets) - Google Spreadsheets R API\n* [readxl](https://github.com/tidyverse/readxl) - Read excel files (.xls and .xlsx) into R\n* [glue](https://github.com/tidyverse/glue) - Glue strings to data in R. Small, fast, dependency free interpreted string literals\n\n## EDA\n*Exploratory Data Analysis packages.*\n\n* [skimr](https://github.com/ropenscilabs/skimr) - Provides tidyverse-friendly summary statistics\n* [summarytools](https://github.com/dcomtois/summarytools) - R Package for quickly and neatly summarizing vectors and dataframes\n* [visdat](https://github.com/ropensci/visdat) - Preliminary Exploratory Visualisation of Data\n\n## Visualization\n*Visualize your data.*\n\n* [ggplot2](https://github.com/tidyverse/ggplot2) - A data visualization package for R\n* [hrbrthemes](https://github.com/hrbrmstr/hrbrthemes) - Opinionated ggplot2 themes and theme components\n* [ggthemes](https://github.com/jrnold/ggthemes) - More themes and scales for ggplot2\n* [waffle](https://github.com/hrbrmstr/waffle) - Make waffle (square pie) charts in R\n\n## Database\n*Database manipulation packages*\n\n* [RMySQL](https://github.com/r-dbi/RMySQL) - An R interface for MySQL\n* [RMariaDB](https://github.com/r-dbi/RMariaDB) - An R interface for MariaDB\n* [RPostgreSQL](https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/RPostgreSQL/index.html) - An R interface for PostgreSQL\n* [RSQLite](https://github.com/r-dbi/RSQLite) - An R interface for SQLite\n* [mongolite](https://github.com/jeroen/mongolite) - An R interface for MongoDB\n* [bigrquery](https://github.com/r-dbi/bigrquery) - An interface to Google's bigquery from R\n\n## Reproducible Research\n*If you can't reproduce it then it didn't happen*\n\n* [knitr](http://yihui.name/knitr/) - Dynamic report generation engine for R\n* [R Markdown](https://rmarkdown.rstudio.com/) - Fully reproducible Markdown documents for R\n* [remedy](https://github.com/ThinkR-open/remedy) - RStudio Addins to Simplify Markdown Writing\n\n## Spatial Analysis\n*Spatial analysis packages*\n\n* [leaflet](https://rstudio.github.io/leaflet/) - Package for creating interactive maps in R\n* [ggmap](https://github.com/dkahle/ggmap) - A package for plotting maps in R with ggplot2\n\n## Natural Language Processing\n*Packages for Natural Language Processing*\n\n* [tm](http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/tm/index.html) - A comprehensive text mining framework for R\n* [SnowballC](https://cran.rstudio.com/web/packages/SnowballC/index.html) - Snowball stemmers based on the C libstemmer UTF-8 library\n* [syuzhet](https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/syuzhet/index.html) - Powerful sentiment analysis package for R\n* [sentimentr](https://github.com/trinker/sentimentr) - Dictionary based sentiment analysis that considers valence shifters\n* [wordcloud](https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/wordcloud/index.html) - Package to create pretty word clouds\n\n## Integrated Development Environments\n*Integrated Development Environment*\n\n* [RStudio](https://www.rstudio.com/) - Powerful open source and commercial IDE for R\n* [RTVS](https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/rtvs/installer) - R Tools for Visual Studio\n* [vscode](https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=Ikuyadeu.r) - R plugin for VS Code\n\n## R Development\n*R Development*\n\n* [devtools](https://github.com/r-lib/devtools) - Tools to make an R developer's life easier\n* [remotes](https://github.com/r-lib/remotes) - Install R packages from GitHub, Bitbucket, git, svn repositories, URLs\n* [here](https://github.com/krlmlr/here) - You are here\n* [roxygen2](https://github.com/klutometis/roxygen) -  Quick way to document your R packages\n* [testthat](https://github.com/r-lib/testthat) - Provides an easy way to write unit tests for your code projects\n\n# Contributing\nYour contributions are always welcome! Please read the [contributing](https://github.com/erikhoward/favorite-R/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md) guidelines to get started.\n","project_url":"https://awesome.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/projects/github.com%2Ferikhoward%2Ffavorite-r","html_url":"https://awesome.ecosyste.ms/projects/github.com%2Ferikhoward%2Ffavorite-r","lists_url":"https://awesome.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/projects/github.com%2Ferikhoward%2Ffavorite-r/lists"}