R (programming language)

Tips and tricks about the R programming language.

Interesting repos / projects

• aRt by Will Chase: GitHub repo | Website
  • Mentioned in Will’s talk at rstudio::conf 2020

Packages to explore

Analysis

• magrittr GitHub repo | Official website
  • Try the additional pipe operators shown in the abstract (see also in the official website)
• diffobj: GitHub repo

Reporting

• report: GitHub repo | Official website
• performance: GitHub repo | Official website

Plotting

• echarts4r, which uses echarts
• bbplot from the BBC
  • BBC’s R Cookbook

Environments

• wrapr: GitHub repo | Official website

R Markdown

• downloadthis: Official website
• pander: GitHub repo | Official website

Shiny

• Golem: GitHub repo | Official website
• shinyMobile: GitHub repo | Official website

Articles of interest

• RMarkdown Driven Development (RmdDD)
• RMarkdown Driven Development: the Technical Appendix

Fun

• Code gist for “What people do in R” vs “What people think others do”