Tools

Data Science Tools

Hadley Wickham Anything that this guy has made. Over the past 10 years, he's made a bunch of tools that have made R a much less clunky language.
- ggplot2 The best plotting.
- ggvis An upcoming alternative to ggplot2; offers some nice features at the moment for web displays (including interactivity).
- dplyr An incredibly useful data.frame manipulation package. Supports all sorts of things like aggregation, grouping, and even lets you lazily evaluate manipulations of connections to SQL databases (or BQ!)
- tidyr For making your data tidy. An extension of reshape2.
- httr Simple manipulation of HTTP.
- rvest Simple web scraping.
bigrquery A decent interface to BigQuery.
magrittr Understand this as soon as possible. It will make your life much easier.
pipeR A competing version of the magrittr package. Do the tutorial.
rlist Like dplyr but for lists.
data.table Offers an alternative to data.frames, is very fast and incorporates some of the features of dplyr in its DF manipulation syntax. Do the tutorial.
purrr Functional programming additions for R. Lets you do a lot of useful function composition/application easily.
sparkTable Makes Tufte-style spark-* charts or tables. Compatible with shiny.
ShinyJS Great for incorporating interactive javascript into Shiny apps and markdowns via R code.