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 —