Top R repositories on GitHub

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Ranked by stars across 1,891 R repositories on GitHub. Refreshed daily.

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cxli233/FriendsDontLetFriends★ 7,053 · ⑂ 285
Friends don't let friends make certain types of data visualization - What are they and why are they bad.
- data-visualization
- r
2
tidyverse/ggplot2★ 6,927 · ⑂ 2,133
An implementation of the Grammar of Graphics in R
- r
- visualisation
- data-visualisation
3
qinwf/awesome-R★ 6,456 · ⑂ 1,510
A curated list of awesome R packages, frameworks and software.
- r
- data-science
- data-analysis
- awesome
- list
- awesome-list
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rstudio/shiny★ 5,644 · ⑂ 1,889
Easy interactive web applications with R
- r
- rstudio
- shiny
- reactive
- web-app
- web-development
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hadley/r4ds★ 5,048 · ⑂ 4,413
R for data science: a book
- book
- bookdown
- data-science
- r
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tidyverse/dplyr★ 5,023 · ⑂ 2,131
dplyr: A grammar of data manipulation
- r
- data-manipulation
- grammar
7
swirldev/swirl_courses★ 4,540 · ⑂ 7,225
:mortar_board: A collection of interactive courses for the swirl R package.
8
rmcelreath/stat_rethinking_2022★ 4,104 · ⑂ 436
Statistical Rethinking course winter 2022
9
briatte/awesome-network-analysis★ 4,036 · ⑂ 628
A curated list of awesome network analysis resources.
- network-analysis
- network-visualization
- complex-networks
- political-networks
- semantic-networks
- graph-theory
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Rdatatable/data.table★ 3,888 · ⑂ 1,046
R's data.table package extends data.frame:
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johnmyleswhite/ML_for_Hackers★ 3,741 · ⑂ 2,187
Code accompanying the book "Machine Learning for Hackers"
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twitter/AnomalyDetection★ 3,610 · ⑂ 766
Anomaly Detection with R
13
rstudio/rmarkdown★ 3,035 · ⑂ 993
Dynamic Documents for R
- r
- r-package
- rmarkdown
- pandoc
- markdown
- literate-programming
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satijalab/seurat★ 2,720 · ⑂ 985
R toolkit for single cell genomics
- human-cell-atlas
- single-cell-rna-seq
- single-cell-genomics
- cran
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plotly/plotly.R★ 2,666 · ⑂ 641
An interactive graphing library for R
- r
- ggplot2
- javascript
- data-visualization
- d3js
- shiny
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thomasp85/patchwork★ 2,603 · ⑂ 170
The Composer of ggplots
- rstats
- ggplot2
- visualization
- ggplot-extension
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r-lib/devtools★ 2,508 · ⑂ 761
Tools to make an R developer's life easier
- r
- package-creation
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yihui/knitr★ 2,448 · ⑂ 880
A general-purpose tool for dynamic report generation in R
- knitr
- r
- literate-programming
- sweave
- rmarkdown
- dynamic-documents
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rmcelreath/stat_rethinking_2023★ 2,377 · ⑂ 268
Statistical Rethinking Course for Jan-Mar 2023
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rmcelreath/rethinking★ 2,377 · ⑂ 627
Statistical Rethinking course and book package
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IndrajeetPatil/ggstatsplot★ 2,176 · ⑂ 204
Enhancing {ggplot2} plots with statistical analysis 📊📣
- ggplot-extension
- dataviz
- r
- statistical-analysis
- datascience
- bayes-factors
22
tylermorganwall/rayshader★ 2,157 · ⑂ 218
R Package for 2D and 3D mapping and data visualization
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rstudio/gt★ 2,147 · ⑂ 222
Easily generate information-rich, publication-quality tables from R
- r
- summary-tables
- easy-to-use
- docx
- html
- latex
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genomicsclass/labs★ 2,141 · ⑂ 1,952
Rmd source files for the HarvardX series PH525x
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ujjwalkarn/DataScienceR★ 2,124 · ⑂ 880
a curated list of R tutorials for Data Science, NLP and Machine Learning
- datascience
- data-science
- r
- text-mining

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