05. Data

R packages

A list of R packages for getting, making, storing, and sharing data.

Read and Write

• readr
• vroom
• haven

Data Frames

• tibble
• data.table

Database Interfaces

• arrow
  • Apache Arrow R cookbook
• duckdb
• RSQLite
• odbc
• DBI
• sparklyr

Simulate

• faux
• simstudy
• simDesign
• ambient
• edibble

Scrape

• rvest
• RSelenium
• polite

Share

• pins

Data Sources

A list of places to download data.

R API Packages

• nhlapi
• openSkies
• ebirdst
• bcdata

R Data Packages

• MLDataR

Download

• Open data for society
• OpenNeuro
• OpenTopography
• kaggle

Draw

• datadraw.xyz

Saving Data

All data, whether it has been sourced, simulated, or otherwise created, should be saved in the data folder so it is easily accessible.

Data files should be named like: yyyy-mm—dd_data-name.csv. If multiple data files exist for a given source, a topic or type should be appended to the data name. For example, yyyy-mm-dd_data-name_topic1.csv and yyyy-mm-dd_data-name_topic2.csv.