This list of R packages covers my main line of work: spatial data analysis, climate and hydrology. You'll find mostly pacakges dedicated to plotting (I use ggplot2), netCDF data handling, mapping and spatial features (mostly sf-related) and development. Additionally, there are some interesting links on these topics collected at the bottom of the page.
Feel free to suggest a package by opening an issue in this repo!
| Package | Description |
|---|---|
| ggplot2 | The best plotting package, period |
| tmap | Advanced plotting generic program using both lattice and ggplot |
| tmaptools | Extension to the tmap package |
| marmap | Import, analyse and plot bathymetries |
| cartography | Thematic cartography |
GGPLOT2 EXTENSIONS (www.ggplot2-exts.org)
| Package | Description |
|---|---|
| patchwork | Combining different plots on a grid |
| cowplot | Combining different plots on a grid, annotations, subplots, |
| ggally | Plot matrixes, glyphs, combining plots |
| ggiraph | Interactive gg plots |
| ggsn | North and scale symbols for ggplot |
| ggspatial | Spatial helpers, north and scale symbols, backgrounds |
| gganimate | Animate gg graphics |
| tweenr | Interpolate animation of gg graphics |
| transformr | As tweenr, for polygons |
| ggalt | Several nice scales and geoms, horizon charts, lollipop charts, densities, encircling lines, splines |
| ggradar | Radar charts with ggplot |
| ggrepel | Repelling labels |
| ggextra | Marginal plots |
| ggquiver | Add arrows and vectors on top of plots |
| multiscales | Multivariate color scales. Similar in scope to tricolore |
| ggridges | Ridgeline plots |
| ggpmisc | Adding tables, ridges and valleys, fit equations with R2, density filters |
| ggforce | {Zoomed and paginated} facets; {arcs, circles, gradient links, sina (violin-like)} plots, additional transformations |
| ggbeeswarm | better scatterplots without overlaps |
| gghalves | Half-half geometries |
| ggpirate | pirate plots, a kind of advanced boxplots |
| ggpol | A fem geometris, some of which linked to politics (parliament plots) |
| ggperiodic | Periodic plots, such as 360degree and 24-h circle plots without jumps in coord_polar |
| ggstatsplot | Functions to provide ggplots with added very detailed statistical information |
| metR | Awesome package for easier analysis of metereological fields. Provides, other than EOF functions and the like, some amazing ggplot2 extensions for contouring, highlighting areas, subsetting, better scales nd more |
| ggnewscale | Multiple scales with ggplot2; very simple to use! Similar to relayer |
| relayer | Multiple scales with ggplot2, similar to ggnewscale |
| sugrrants | Another ggplot2 extension providing timeseries analysis, and in particular calendar plots |
| ggisoband | ggplot2 interface to the isoband library which can generate contour lines and polygons |
| Package | Description |
|---|---|
| RColorBrewer | Provides Cynthia Brewer color palettes, integrates with ggplot2 |
| scales | Create color scales, integrates some missing features in ggplot2 |
| colorpiler | Additional color palettes, including Brewer's. ggplot integration supported |
| colourpicker | |
| colourvalues | |
| colorspace | Excellent HCL-based color palettes, also provides ggplot scales |
| colormap | Generate colors from color palettes defined in Node.js's colormap module; integrates with ggplot2 |
| scico | Colour palettes developed by Fabio Crameri |
| tricolore | tricolor multivariate color scales, integrated with ggplot2. Similar in scope to multiscales |
INTERACTIVE PLOTTING/MANIPULATION (http://www.htmlwidgets.org/showcase_leaflet.html)
| Package | Description |
|---|---|
| plotly | Interactive plotting with D3, can also import ggplot plots |
| mapview | Visualize spatial data using leaflet, works with sf and raster |
| plainview | Previously provided with mapview, provides interactive (raster) images rendered as plain unprojected canvas |
| cubeview | Previously provided with mapview, inteactive 3D visualization of raster data |
| leafpm | Edit spatial data using mapedit, using a different editor |
| mapdeck | R interface to Deck.gl and Mapbox, interactive 2d/3d maps |
| leaflet | R interface to the leaflet JS library for interactive maps |
| leafgl | Faster web gl rendering of features on leaflet maps - currently pre-alpha |
| rthreejs | Interactive 3D scatterplots and globe plots using three.js |
| timevis | nteractive timeline/timeseries visualizations |
| r2d3 | Low-level D3.js visualizations |
| rAmCharts | Interactive charts based on amcharts.js |
| dygraphs | Yet another graphical timeseries plotter |
| vegalite | ggplot2-like "bindings" for Vega-Lite |
| vegawidget | Low level access to the Vega-Lite API, to render as htmlwidgets for shiny integration |
| Package | Description |
|---|---|
| shiny | The go-to R package for interactive web interfaces, dashboards |
| advanced-shiny | Not a package, but helpful resource for shiny hints |
| shinyjs | Set of functions to complete missing shiny features |
| shinyBS | Add additional functionality and interactivity to your shiny applications (last commit 2016) |
| shinyWidgets | Set of additional shiny widgets |
| shinydashboard | |
| flexdashboard | Easy interactive dashboards for R. Also integrates with rmarkdown |
PLOTTING OVER TILED (WEB) MAPS, OBTAINING AND HANDLING SPATIAL BOUNDARIES, DIRECTIONS AND MAP DATA (maps, DEMs)
| Package | Description |
|---|---|
| ggmap | Oldish interface to add google-like maps to ggplot |
| googleway | Provides a mechanism to access various Google Maps APIs, including plotting a Google Map from R and overlaying it with shapes and markers, and retrieving data from the places, directions, roads, distances, geocoding, elevation and timezone APIs. |
| RgoogleMaps | |
| tiler | Package to adapt background maps to a given CRS, ready to plot with leaflet |
| rnaturalearth | Go-to package for obtaining boundaries and other spatial features data from naturalearthdata |
| rnaturalearthhires | High resolution data for rnaturalearth |
| rnaturalearthdata | Additional resolution data for rnaturalearth |
| rworldmap | |
| rworldxtra | |
| maps | |
| mapdata | |
| maptools | |
| rmapzen | A Mapzen API client for R |
| mapsap | An interface to some Google Maps APIs, returning sf objects |
| elevatr | Access elevation data from several web services |
| stplanr | Excellent package for transport and route planning, includes interface to the graphhopper direction and route planning API |
| graphhopper-r | Another interface to the graphhopper direction and route planning API |
| mapsapi | Interface to the Google Maps direction, geocode and distance APIs, integrates with sf, requires API key |
| gmapsdistance | Another interface to the Google Maps distance matrix API; requires API key |
| Package | Description |
|---|---|
| sf | Simple features for R |
| lwgeom | sf bindings to the liblwgeom library |
| rmapshaper | very fast and accurate polygon simplification, extraction of lines from polygons, and much more |
| smoothr | Smooth polygons using different methods, integrates with sf |
| geometa | Write, read & validate geographic metadata; extends sf |
| areal | Facilitate areal interpolation (with weights) between sf polygons and objects |
| concaveman | A very fast 2D concave hull algorithm |
| gstat | Variogram modelling, spatio-temporal kriging, gridding; supports sf and stars objects |
| raster | The de-facto standard raster data manipulation tool in R. Has TONS of features but its desing is somewhat old, and new features are not added frequently |
| stars | A new package which integrates extremely well with sf and provides some advantages over raster, at the cost of features |
| gdalcubes_R | New pacakge to deal with GDALcubes, which are collections of Earth Observation images as on demand data cubes (or multidimensional arrays) |
| velox | Fast raster extraction and manipulation. Very fast. Integrates with raster and sf |
| Package | Description |
|---|---|
| ncdf4 | The main low level package for dealing with netCDF data. Has some drawbacks |
| RNetCDF | alternative package to ncdf4. Works better, but the syntax and usability are terrible |
| tidync | modern, tidyverse-like way to access netcdf data |
| ncmeta | Easy metadata retrieval from netCDF files |
| netcdfgeom | Reads and writes geometry data (points, lines and polygons) to/from netCDF files |
| Package | Description |
|---|---|
| units | Deal with units in a clear and automatic way, using udunits2 |
| udunits2 | R bindings to the Unidata udunits2 library |
| Package | Description |
|---|---|
| dplyr | Best tool for general data prying in tydy format (column = variable, row = observation) |
| data.table | Similar in scope to dplyr, but in general quite a bit faster, albeit with less clear grammar. Also provides the best text file reader, fread |
| dtplyr | Translational layer between dplyr and data.table: the ease of use of the former with the speed of the latter! |
| tidyr | Set of functions to help tidy data |
| purrr | Enhanced functional programming with R, via map* functions |
| vroom | Super-duper fast reading of delimited files |
| Package | Description |
|---|---|
| lubridate | Tidy date handling package |
| tsibble | Tools to integrate tibbles with tidy time manipualtion (aggregation, etc.). Also provides rolling means and integrates with futures! |
| feasts | Extend tsibble with additional functions, compositions, and visualisations; used by fable |
| fable | Methods and tools for displaying and analysing univariate time series forecasts; uses feasts |
| sweep | Extends the broom tools for performing tidy forecasts using forecast. An alternative to fable |
| zoo | |
| xts | |
| forecast | The primary package for time series forecasting |
| PCICt | 360-day calendars |
| Package | Description |
|---|---|
| dbplyr | dplyr interface for (also online) databasesl; uses DBI |
| RSQLite | R interface to SQL |
| DBI | Common interface between R and Database Management Systems |
| Package | Description |
|---|---|
| future | modern parallel execution API supporting several backends. Execute R code asyncronously in the background, potentially with many cores |
| promises | Asyncronous programming. Especially useful applied to multi-user Shiny apps or Shiny apps with long and slow tasks. Uses future. |
| future.batchtools | future extension to provide PBS, SLURM... access via batchtools |
| future.apply | Parallel apply integration with futures |
| furrr | purrr... in the future |
| multidplyr | A parallel backend to dplyr |
| foreach | Simple parallelised for loops |
| batchtools | Provides tools to interact with batch schedulers such as SLURM, TORQUE, OpenPBS... |
| rslurm | Yet another tool to submit and manage SLURM jobs |
| pbapply | Progress bars with mcapply and parLapply made easy. Adds a significant overhead |
| pbmcapply | Parallel apply with progress bars, uses future. Fastest progress bar implementation by far, but only ptovides lapply and mapply |
| clustermq | Very low overhead multiprocessing via ZeroMQ. Has live load balancing |
| Package | Description |
|---|---|
| futile.logger | Best logger there is |
| tryCatchLog | Wrapper to futile.logger for catching standard warnings and errors |
| assertr | Error controls in magrittr pipelines |
| progressr | Framework for reporting progress, works with shiny, futures and more |
| Package | Description |
|---|---|
| profvis | Profile your code, and visualise performance interactively |
| styler | Style and beautify your R code |
| optparse | Best package for parsing input |
| reprex | Easily create reproducible examples for SO, GitHub, etc. |
| testthat | de facto standard R package for testing packages and functions |
| usethis | Invaluable tools to automate tasks related primarily to the creation of R pacakges |
| pkgdown | Build website (static html documentation) for your package |
| remotes | Install R packages from GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket, git, svn repositories, URLs |
| fs | Provide cross platform filesystem operations, combines well with dplyr and purrr |
| rcpp | R interface to C++ |
| Package | Description |
|---|---|
| addinslist | List of useful R studio addins |
| Package | Description |
|---|---|
| drake | Toll for reproducible research: define your planned workflow, rerun only what changed |
| knitr | Elegant, flexible, and fast dynamic report generation |
| rmarkdown | Generate documents including code and plots |
| broom | Tidy and prepare for plotting the output of common model functions / fits |
| forcats | Tidy tools for handling factors |
| nml | R interface to Fortran namelists |
| reticulate | use Python via R |
| tidytext | |
| colorout | colorize your R terminal |
| glue | Handy replacement for paste() |
| stringr | Better string handling |
| readr | Fast and friendly tidy way to read rectangular data (like csv, tsv, and fwf) |
| skimr | Very nice package for computing and showing better summary statistics. Very, very nice. |
| eurostat | Access, search and download the Eurostat database |