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Runners Up

We know of people that recommend these packages. We haven't included them in our main list because they do not meet one or more of our criteria for a useful R package:

  • The code in the package runs fast, with few errors.
  • The code in the package has an intuitive syntax that is easy to remember.
  • The package plays well with other packages; you do not need to munge your data into new forms to use the package.
  • The package is widely used and recommended by its users.
  • The package has a development website, or series of vignettes, that make the package easy to learn.
  • The package is developed in the open (e.g. on Github or RForge).
  • The package uses tests to ensure that it will be stable and bug free well into the future.
  • The package is stable and available from CRAN, or we are personally involved with the package and committed to its development.

Import

  • rio
  • XML - parse and generate xml from R.
  • xlsx - Read and write Microsoft Excel files.

Tidy

  • chron - Objects to handle date and times. No website. No vignette.
  • reshape2 - Superceded by tidyr.

Visualize

  • scales
  • extrafont - import fonts for graphs. No tests.
  • ggstat
  • gggeom
  • manipulate. No tests.
  • gridBase - integrates base and grid graphics. No website. Not DS.
  • maps - utilities for maps. No website. No vignette.
  • labeling - axis labeling algorithms. No website. No vignette.
  • gtable - tools for laying out plots. No website. No vignettes. Not for DS.
  • gridExtra - extensions for grid graphics. Not for DS.
  • scales - Utilities for mapping data to visual aesthetics in plots. No website. No vignette. Not for DS.

Transform

  • gdata - tools for data manipulation. No website.
  • plyr - functions for groupwise operations. Most used parts superceded by dplyr.

Model

  • arm - Regression and Multilevel/Hierarchical Models. No website. No vignette.
  • nlme - Linear and Nonlinear Mixed Effects Models. No website.
  • kernlab - Kernel-based machine learning methods. No website.
  • mgcv - generalized additive models. No website. No vignette.
  • boot - bootstrapping methods. No site.
  • irlba - SVD, PCA and Symmetric Eigendecomposition for large, sparse matrices. No vignette.
  • e1071 - svm() function for support vector machines. No website.
  • lmtest - tools to test linear regression models. No website.
  • acepack - ACE and AVAS methods for choosing regression transformations. No website. No vignette.
  • nnet - neural networks with a single hidden layer. No website. No vignette.
  • sandwich - Model-robust standard error estimators for cross-sectional, time series, and longitudinal data. No website.
  • Formula - Infrastructure for multipart modelling formulas. No website.
  • MASS - functions and data sets from Modern Applied Statistics with S. No development website. No vignette.
  • caTools - tools for moving window statistics. No Website. No Vignette.
  • quantreg - quantile regression. No Website.

Infer

Communicate

  • stargazer - Turns R objects into customized tables. No public development page.
  • countdown - countdown timer for R Markdown documents. Not on Cran. No vignette.

Automate

  • openssl - Encryption, Signatures and Certificates Based on OpenSSL. Not for DS.
  • RCurl - libcurl interface for HTTP requests. Not for DS.

Program

  • httpuv - tools for HTTP and WebSocket requests. Not DS.
  • registry - tools for defining and using registries. No website. Not DS.
  • pkgmaker - Utilities for making R packages. Not DS.
  • quadprog - tools for solving quadratic programming. No dev site.
  • doParallel - parallel processing when combined with the foreach package. No website.
  • withr - run code with safely and temporarily modified global state. Not DS.
  • whisker - {{mustache}} templating for R. Not DS.
  • gtools - Various R Programming Tools. No website. No vignette.
  • assertthat - tools for more friendly error messages. Not DS.
  • lazyeval - tools to program with non-standard evaluation. Not for DS.
  • iterators - Support for iterating operations. No website.
  • memoise - Cache the results of a function so that when you call it again with the same arguments it returns the pre-computed value. Not for DS.
  • RcppEigen - interface for Eigen C++ library for linear algebra. Not for DS.
  • foreach - foreach looping. Now Website.
  • evaluate - Parsing and evaluation tools that make it easy to recreate the command line behaviour of R. Not for DS.
  • BH - Boost C++ templates for R. Not for DS.
  • rJava - Low-Level R to Java Interface. Not for DS.
  • bitops - functions for bitwise operations on integer vectors. No website. No vignette. Not for DS.
  • curl - An R connection interface to libcurl. Not for DS.
  • mime - Map Filenames to MIME Types. Not for DS.
  • digest - Create Compact Hash Digests of R Objects. Not for DS.
  • snow - simple parallel computing in R. No website.
  • Rth - Parallel processing with R through Thrush. Not on CRAN.

Data

  • datasets - small data sets
  • HistData - small data sets of historical importance