Awesome R

A curated list of awesome R packages and tools. Inspired by awesome-machine-learning.

heart for Top 50 CRAN downloaded packages or repos with 400+

2023

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.
Sublime Text + R-IDE - Add-on package for Sublime Text 2/3.
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.
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.
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.
radian (formerly rtichoke) - A modern R console with syntax highlighting.
RKWard - An extensible IDE/GUI for R.

Packages change the way you use R.

Packages for cooking data.

dplyr - Fast data frames manipulation and database query.
data.table - Fast data manipulation in a short and flexible syntax.
reshape2 - Flexible rearrange, reshape and aggregate data.
tidyr - Easily tidy data with spread and gather functions.
broom - Convert statistical analysis objects into tidy data frames.
rlist - A toolbox for non-tabular data manipulation with lists.
ff - Data structures designed to store large datasets.
lubridate - A set of functions to work with dates and times.
stringi - ICU based string processing package.
stringr - Consistent API for string processing, built on top of stringi.
bigmemory - Shared memory and memory-mapped matrices. The big* packages provide additional tools including linear models (biglm) and Random Forests (bigrf).
fuzzyjoin - Join tables together on inexact matching.
tidyverse - Easily install and load packages from the tidyverse.
snakecase - Automatically parse and convert strings into cases like snake or camel among others.
DataExplorer - Fast exploratory data analysis with minimum code.

Packages for reading and writing data of different formats.

arrow - An interface to the Arrow C++ library.
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.
haven - Improved methods to import SPSS, Stata and SAS files in R.
jsonlite - A robust and quick way to parse JSON files in R.
qs - Quick serialization of R objects.
readxl - Read excel files (.xls and .xlsx) into R.
readr - A fast and friendly way to read tabular data into R.
rio - A Swiss-Army Knife for Data I/O.
readODS - Read OpenDocument Spreadsheets into R as data.frames.
RcppTOML - Rcpp Bindings to C++ parser for TOML files.
vroom - Fast reading of delimited files.
writexl - Portable, light-weight data frame to xlsx exporter for R.
yaml - R package for converting objects to and from YAML.

Packages for showing data.

ggplot2 - An implementation of the Grammar of Graphics.
ggfortify - A unified interface to ggplot2 popular statistical packages using one line of code.
ggrepel - Repel overlapping text labels away from each other.
ggalt - Extra Coordinate Systems, Geoms and Statistical Transformations for ggplot2.
ggstatsplot - ggplot2 Based Plots with Statistical Details
ggtree - Visualization and annotation of phylogenetic tree.