Top 11 R Data Projects

disk.frame

5 592 0.0 R

Fast Disk-Based Parallelized Data Manipulation Framework for Larger-than-RAM Data
police-settlements

10 143 0.0 R

A FiveThirtyEight/The Marshall Project effort to collect comprehensive data on police misconduct settlements from 2010-19.
InfluxDB

www.influxdata.com sponsored

Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.
babynames

1 133 0.0 R

An R package containing US baby names from the SSA
owidR

2 114 6.5 R

An R Package for Importing Data from Our World in Data
RedditExtractor

5 82 3.3 R

A minimalistic R wrapper for the Reddit API

Project mention: Will RedditExtractoR be impacted by API changes? | /r/redditdev | 2023-06-01

IIRC RedditExtractor doesn't use OAuth2 so I think the 10reqs/min ratelimit will be applied to the library/client.

opentripplanner

1 77 4.1 R

An R package to set up and use OpenTripPlanner (OTP) as a local or remote multimodal trip planner. (by ropensci)
uaconflict_equipmentloss

7 31 10.0 R

This repo scrapes Oryxspioenkop (daily) to document and visualize equipment losses in the Russia-Ukraine war. https://www.oryxspioenkop.com/2022/02/attack-on-europe-documenting-equipment.html

Project mention: Ukraine Discussion/Question Thread - 6/24/23+ | /r/CombatFootage | 2023-06-26

WorkOS

workos.com sponsored

The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.
rnpn

1 18 6.2 R

R client for the National Phenology Network database API
covid19-nor-data

1 16 0.0 R

Cleaned public data about Covid-19 in Norway
thesimpsons

1 12 10.0 R

Package (dataset): The Simpsons episodes dataset
openbankeR

1 6 0.0 R

R client for querying the Open Banking API

NOTE: The open source projects on this list are ordered by number of github stars. The number of mentions indicates repo mentiontions in the last 12 Months or since we started tracking (Dec 2020).

R Data related posts

Ukraine Discussion/Question Thread - 6/24/23+
2 projects | /r/CombatFootage | 26 Jun 2023
Will RedditExtractoR be impacted by API changes?
1 project | /r/redditdev | 1 Jun 2023
Ukraine Discussion/Question Thread - 4/22/23+
2 projects | /r/CombatFootage | 28 Apr 2023
bulk subreddit datasets?
1 project | /r/Rlanguage | 4 Mar 2023
Has anyone here used the Reddit API before (in R)?
1 project | /r/rstats | 26 Feb 2023
Biden Promised a Police Misconduct Database. He’s Yet to Deliver.
1 project | /r/Bad_Cop_No_Donut | 5 Feb 2023
Using RedditExtractoR to scrape flairs?
1 project | /r/redditdev | 31 Jan 2023
A note from our sponsor - WorkOS
workos.com | 24 Apr 2024

The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning. Learn more →

Index

What are some of the best open-source Data projects in R? This list will help you:

	Project	Stars
1	disk.frame	592
2	police-settlements	143
3	babynames	133
4	owidR	114
5	RedditExtractor	82
6	opentripplanner	77
7	uaconflict_equipmentloss	31
8	rnpn	18
9	covid19-nor-data	16
10	thesimpsons	12
11	openbankeR	6