10 R packages I wish I knew about earlier

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R can be more prickly and obscure than other languages like Python or Java. The good news is that there are tons of packages which provide simple and familiar interfaces on top of Base R. This post is about ten packages I love and use everyday and ones I wish I knew about earlier.

The database driver package of your choice

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R can be more prickly and obscure than other languages like Python or Java. The good news is that there are tons of packages which provide simple and familiar interfaces on top of Base R. This post is about ten packages I love and use everyday and ones I wish I knew about earlier.

<a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/sqldf/index.html" title="sqldf - SQL select on R dataframes">sqldf</a>

<a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/forecast/index.html" title="forecast - forcasting functions for time series & linear models in r">forecast</a>

<a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/stringr/index.html" title="stringr - string utilities for r programmers">stringr</a>

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<a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/lubridate/lubridate.pdf" title="lubridate - r package for dates">lubridate</a> <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://docs.ggplot2.org/current/" title="ggplot2 - beautiful graphics for R programmers">ggplot2</a>

<a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/reshape2/index.html" title="reshape2 - restructure & aggregate data in r">reshape2</a>

<a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/randomForest/index.html" title="randomForest - Classification & regression trees in R">randomForest</a>

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10 R packages I wish I knew about earlier

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