Welcome to the fourth blog post of the series Exploring packages in R. In this blog post you will see a summary of resources that you might find useful when using R.
(last updated on 18th Feb 2021).
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This RStudio cheat sheets website provided by RStudio contains cheat sheets for popular packages such as ggplot2, readr, and Shiny, as well as cheat sheets (e.g. leaflet, LaTeX) contributed by R Users.
Each package listed here will be followed by its last release date and the number of downloads in the last month. RStudio support also put together a list of useful R packages.
| Packages | Description | Last release date | Last month downloads |
|---|---|---|---|
| ggmap | Retrieve raster map tiles from online mapping services | ||
| ggpubr | Provides some easy-to-use functions for creating and customising ggplot2 - based publication ready plots | ||
| ggparty | Visualisations for the partykit package | ||
| patchwork | Combine separate ggplot2 objects into the same graphic | ||
| ggraph | Graph visualisation | ||
| gganimate | Support for declaration of animations | ||
| ggrepel | Repel overlapping text labels | ||
| GGally | Adding functions to reduce the complexity of combining geoms with transformed data | ||
| ggforce | Providing missing functionality to ggplot2 | ||
| ggtext | Improved text rendering support for ggplot2 |
If you are looking for packages in specific topics or areas, Task Views on CRAN (The Comprehensive R Archive Network) would be a good place to start.
Quick links for some topics:
| Packages | Type | Description | Last month downloads | Last release date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| choroplethr | Map | Create choropleth maps | ||
| tmap | Map | Create thematic maps | ||
| leaflet | Map | Create Interactive Web Maps | ||
| specr | Analytics | Conducting and Visualizing Specification Curve Analyses | ||
| plotrix | Collection | A large number of specialized plots | ||
| DiagrammeR | Graph/Network | Build graph/network structures using functions for stepwise addition and deletion of nodes and edges | ||
| igraph | Graph/Network | Adding functions to reduce the complexity of combining geoms with transformed data | ||
| ROCR | Metrics | Visualizing the Performance of Scoring Classifiers | ||
| vdiffr | Metrics | Visual Regression Testing and Graphical Diffing | ||
| corrplot | Correlation | Visualisation of a Correlation Matrix | ||
| visNetwork | Graph/Network | Network Visualization using 'vis.js' Library | ||
| rasterVis | Spatial | Visualise spatial raster data | ||
| sjPlot | Collection | Data Visualisation for Statistics in Social Science | ||
| circlize | Circular | Circular Visualisation | ||
| qgraph | Graph/Network | Weighted network visualization and analysis, as well as Gaussian graphical model computation | ||
| see | Collection | Visualisation Toolbox for 'easystats' and Extra Geoms, Themes and Color Palettes for 'ggplot2' | ||
| DataVisualizations | High-dimensional | Gives access to data visualisation methods that are relevant from the data scientist's point of view |
- META CRAN - Search and browse all CRAN/R packages