Link: Aster Hu’s Blog - Resources for R

Packages I use

Tidyverse: my swiss knife

Yes, I’m the monster who calls library(tidyverse) at the beginning of every R script.

  • dplyr
  • tidyr
  • stringr
  • readr
  • writer
  • ggplot2

Working with Excel

See more in Working with Excel from R.

  • openxlsx
  • readxl
  • writexl
  • openxlsx2

Occasional usage

  • data.table
  • leaflet

Utilities

See more details in R Utilities, including updating packages, reduce objects to avoid noise, etc.

  • bannerCommenter
  • clipr
  • tinytex
  • rmarkdown

Machine learning

  • caret

Dataset

  • tidytuesdayR
  • opendatatoronto