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Top 23 R R Projects
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FriendsDontLetFriends
Friends don't let friends make certain types of data visualization - What are they and why are they bad.
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Pardon me for shooting from the hip here, but IMO if you're using R for something radically different than statistical analysis and data visualization, there might be another tool/language that's more purpose-suited.
> As someone who basically uses R as a nice LISP-y scripting language to orchestrate calling low-level compiled code from other languages
When I read this, I think, would `bash` or something equally portable/universally installed work?
R is a beautiful thing when limited to its core uses (I use it every day ([0]). But in my experience, the more we build away from those core uses, the more brittleness we introduce. I wish the Posit team would focus on the core R experience, resolve some of the hundreds of open issues on its core packages in a timely way, [1,2] and just generally play to R's strengths.
[0] https://github.com/hsflabstanford/vegan-meta
[1] https://github.com/rstudio/rmarkdown/issues
[2] https://github.com/tidyverse/ggplot2/issues
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dplyr
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Project mention: Reinventing notebooks as reusable Python programs | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-03-19
I am surprised they didn't mention RMarkdown (https://rmarkdown.rstudio.com/), which was developed in parallel to Jupyter Notebooks, with lots of convergent evolution.
RMarkdown is essentially Markdown with executable code blocks. While it comes from an R background, code blocks can be written in any language (and you can mix multiple languages).
The biggest difference (and, I would say, advantage) is that it separates code from output, making it work well with version control.
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Stream
Stream - Scalable APIs for Chat, Feeds, Moderation, & Video. Stream helps developers build engaging apps that scale to millions with performant and flexible Chat, Feeds, Moderation, and Video APIs and SDKs powered by a global edge network and enterprise-grade infrastructure.
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tidyr
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drake
An R-focused pipeline toolkit for reproducibility and high-performance computing (by ropensci)
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purrr
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MetBrewer
Color palette package in R inspired by works at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York
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SaaSHub
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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).
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Debugging Compiled Code for R with Positron
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Show HN: Create Music with R
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How to generate a great website and reference manual for your R package
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ggplot2
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Polars R Package
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2023 Lookback
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Ask HN: How do you build diagrams for the web?
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Index
What are some of the best open-source R projects in R? This list will help you:
| # | Project | Stars |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | FriendsDontLetFriends | 6,783 |
| 2 | ggplot2 | 6,720 |
| 3 | awesome-R | 6,220 |
| 4 | dplyr | 4,894 |
| 5 | r4ds | 4,822 |
| 6 | rmarkdown | 2,948 |
| 7 | ggstatsplot | 2,109 |
| 8 | DataScienceR | 2,051 |
| 9 | wesanderson | 2,027 |
| 10 | esquisse | 1,827 |
| 11 | blogdown | 1,767 |
| 12 | tidyverse | 1,738 |
| 13 | DiagrammeR | 1,717 |
| 14 | r-color-palettes | 1,604 |
| 15 | rvest | 1,499 |
| 16 | janitor | 1,414 |
| 17 | tidyr | 1,406 |
| 18 | sf | 1,378 |
| 19 | drake | 1,341 |
| 20 | purrr | 1,323 |
| 21 | lintr | 1,242 |
| 22 | tidytext | 1,189 |
| 23 | MetBrewer | 1,177 |
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