9 R Packages

  • = important/core packages

  • arm — Regression and hierarchical models not found in base R, often used for naive Bayes - bayesglm being a useful method of performing this opperation with minimal code.

  • batch — Allows for batching of scripts and passing to command line tool - useful for parallel tasks on remote servers.

  • caret* — Machine Learning toolbox used to train, test, and produce ML models. Caret can make use of other packages to extend its train-test toolbox to other ML algorithms.

  • data.table* — A C-based package

  • dplyr* —

  • DescTools* —

  • devtools* —

  • doParallel

  • fastLink

  • forecast

  • gbm

  • gg*-family —

    • ggplot2, ggvis, ggpubr, ggmap, ggmcmc, etc.
  • glmm

  • glmnet

  • Hmisc* —

  • igraph

  • imager

  • jsonlite

  • kableExtra

  • knitr* —

  • lme4* —

  • mcmc

  • ordinal

  • psych* —

  • `randomForest`` —

  • Rcpp

  • `rjags`` —

  • `rstan`` —

  • shiny

  • snow

  • sqldf* —

  • stringi

  • stringr

  • tibble* —

  • tidyr* —

    • family of packages use tidyverse
  • tree

  • uuid

  • vars

  • weights

  • xts

  • xtable* —

  • zip

  • zoo