Top R repositories on GitHub
Statistical computing language widely used in academia and analytics.
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- 1cxli233/FriendsDontLetFriends★ 7,108 · ⑂ 286
Friends don't let friends make certain types of data visualization - What are they and why are they bad.
- data-visualization
- r
- 2tidyverse/ggplot2★ 6,997 · ⑂ 2,126
An implementation of the Grammar of Graphics in R
- r
- visualisation
- data-visualisation
- 3qinwf/awesome-R★ 6,511 · ⑂ 1,513
A curated list of awesome R packages, frameworks and software.
- r
- data-science
- data-analysis
- awesome
- list
- awesome-list
- 4rstudio/shiny★ 5,691 · ⑂ 1,889
Easy interactive web applications with R
- r
- rstudio
- shiny
- reactive
- web-app
- web-development
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- 7swirldev/swirl_courses★ 4,608 · ⑂ 7,196
:mortar_board: A collection of interactive courses for the swirl R package.
- 8briatte/awesome-network-analysis★ 4,115 · ⑂ 639
A curated list of awesome network analysis resources.
- network-analysis
- network-visualization
- complex-networks
- political-networks
- semantic-networks
- graph-theory
- 9rmcelreath/stat_rethinking_2022★ 4,110 · ⑂ 430
Statistical Rethinking course winter 2022
- 10Rdatatable/data.table★ 3,919 · ⑂ 1,053
R's data.table package extends data.frame:
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- 11johnmyleswhite/ML_for_Hackers★ 3,730 · ⑂ 2,176
Code accompanying the book "Machine Learning for Hackers"
- 12twitter/AnomalyDetection★ 3,605 · ⑂ 760
Anomaly Detection with R
- 13rstudio/rmarkdown★ 3,063 · ⑂ 990
Dynamic Documents for R
- r
- r-package
- rmarkdown
- pandoc
- markdown
- literate-programming
- 14satijalab/seurat★ 2,801 · ⑂ 998
R toolkit for single cell genomics
- human-cell-atlas
- single-cell-rna-seq
- single-cell-genomics
- cran
- 15plotly/plotly.R★ 2,681 · ⑂ 641
An interactive graphing library for R
- r
- ggplot2
- javascript
- data-visualization
- d3js
- shiny
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- 18yihui/knitr★ 2,466 · ⑂ 876
A general-purpose tool for dynamic report generation in R
- knitr
- r
- literate-programming
- sweave
- rmarkdown
- dynamic-documents
- 19rmcelreath/rethinking★ 2,427 · ⑂ 629
Statistical Rethinking course and book package
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