Currently, how many R Packages?
At the command line enter:
 dim(available.packages())
 available.packages()
Is there an R App Store? No, though Task Views
Package Categories
COMMON FUNCTIONS
– Data Input / Output
– Data Management
– Mathematics and Statistics
– Graphics
SPECIALIZED TASK VIEWS
– Web
– High Performance Computing
– Subject Matter Specific
Data Input / Output
Comma
Separated
Values
XLConnect
sas7bdat
Hmisc
foreign
RMySQL
XML
RODBC / ROracle
RJSONIO
Rcpp
rhbase
R Being Integrated Into Other Data-Related Products
Oracle R Enterprise (ORE)
“Both R and SAS are here to stay, and finding
ways to make them work better with each
other is in the best interests of our
customers.”`
http://support.sas.com/rnd/app/studio/Rinterface2.html
https://blogs.oracle.com/R/
http://help.sap.com/hana/hana_dev_r_emb_en.pdf
http://www-142.ibm.com/software/products/us/en/spss-stats-developer/
Task Views
Next Slides
organizes these by:
Statistics
Graphics
Subject Matter
Web, Computing
Task Views: Statistics, Mathematics
Bayesian
Cluster
DifferentialEquations
Distributions
ExperimentalDesign
MachineLearning
MetaAnalysis
Multivariate
NaturalLanguageProcessing
NumericalMathematics
OfficialStatistics
Optimization
ReproducibleResearch
Robust
Survival
TimeSeries
gR
Bayesian Inference
Cluster Analysis & Finite Mixture Models
Differential Equations
Probability Distributions
2016-05-02
Design of Experiments (DoE) & Analysis of Experimental Data
Machine Learning & Statistical Learning 2016-06-24
Meta-Analysis
Multivariate Statistics
Natural Language Processing 2015-11-09
Numerical Mathematics
Official Statistics & Survey Methodology
Optimization and Mathematical Programming
Reproducible Research
Robust Statistical Methods
Survival Analysis
Time Series Analysis
gRaphical Models in R
Machine Learning
Analytic Technique
Decision Trees
R Package
Author
Organization
Terry Therneau & Beth Atkinson. R
port by Brian Ripley.
Mayo Clinic
University of Oxford
Fortran original by Leo Breiman
R port by Andy Liaw .
Merck
Chih-Chung Chang
Chih-Jen Lin
National Taiwan Univ.
+ EBay Research Labs
Frauke Gunther
Stefan Fritsch
Epidemiology and
Prevention Research
nnet
Brian Ripley
University of Oxford
Ada
Mark Culp
West Virginia University
rpart
Random Forests
randomForest
Support Vector
Machines
libsvm
Neural Networks
Boosting Model
neuralnet
Maximum Entropy
maxent
Yoshimasha Tsuruoka
Timothy Jurka
University of Tokyo
UC-Davis
Bagging, bootstrap
adabag
Esteban Alfaro-Cortes
La Universidad de
Castilla-La Mancha
Jonathan Chang
Facebook
David Meyer,
Evgenia Dimitriadout
Vienna University
Marco Scutari
UCL Genetics Institute
David Harte
Statistics Research
Latent Diralect
Naïve Bayes
Bayesian Network
Hidden Markov
slda
e1071
bnlearn
hiddenmarkov
Example of the SAME Algorithm
Implemented Across Many Languages
Task Views: Graphics, Spatial
Graphics
Spatial
SpatioTemporal
Graphic Displays & Dynamic Graphics & Visualization 2015-01-07
Analysis of Spatial Data
Handling and Analyzing Spatio-Temporal Data
Task Views: Subject Matter Specific
Econometrics
Finance
Econometrics 2016-04-23
Empirical Finance
ChemPhys
ClinicalTrials
Environmetrics
Genetics
MedicalImaging
Pharmacokinetics
Phylogenetics
Chemometrics and Computational Physics
Clinical Trial Design, Monitoring, and Analysis
Analysis of Ecological and Environmental Data
Statistical Genetics
Medical Image Analysis
Analysis of Pharmacokinetic Data
Phylogenetics, Especially Comparative Methods
Psychometrics
SocialSciences
Psychometric Models and Methods
Statistics for the Social Sciences 2016-05-02
Task Views: Web, Computing
HighPerformanceComputing
WebTechnologies
High-Performance and Parallel Computing with R 2016-06-27
2016-05-02
Web Technologies and Services
Tools for Working with the Web from R
Web Services
Core Tools For HTTP Requests (httr, curl)
Cloud Computing and Storage (AWS)
Parsing Data from the Web (XML, JSON)
Document and Code Sharing (GitHub)
URLs (shorteners)
Data Analysis and Processing Services
Scraped Webpage Contents
Social Media Clients (twitteR)
JavaScript
Web Analytics Services (Google Trends)
Other Web Services
Social Media
Specialized
R Help and Training
• Weaknesses
– Documentation Various from Good to Bad
– No Live Customer Service
• Pluses
– Online Communities
– Code Examples
– RStudio Documentation
http://www.statmethods.net/
R + Topic
Error Message
http://stackoverflow.com/
http://www.johnverostek.com/r-links/
R Documentation
http://www.rdocumentation.org/
R-Bloggers
Cheatsheets