Package Index

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The following is a list of packages used during the semester along with links to additional resources. This list does not include dependencies that may be installed for these packages to work. Unless otherwise noted, packages are available via CRAN and can be installed using base::install.packages("packageName").

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Base R Packages

  • base - base functions  
  • datasets - Teaching data that comes with base R  
  • stats - statistical functions  
  • utils - utility functions  

Data Packages

  • gapminder - Teaching data from Gapminder project  
  • testDriveR - Data sets for teaching  

Tidyverse Packages

Core Tidyverse Packages

Use install.packages("tidyverse") to install these for convenience!

  • broom - creation of tidy output  
  • dplyr - data wrangling  
  • forcats - factors  
  • ggplot2 - data plotting  
  • magrittr - pipe operator  
  • tidyr - data wrangling  

Additional Tidyverse Packages

These must be installed independently!

  • reprex - reproducible examples  

Statistical Packages

  • car - variety of statistical functions  
  • effsize - effect size calculations  
  • Hmisc - variety of statistical functions, including correlations  
  • lmtest - assumption and fit tests for OLS models  
  • moments - normality testing  
  • naniar - missing data analysis  
  • nortest - normality testing  
  • psych - Cronbach’s alpha  
  • pwr - power analysis calculations  
  • skimr - descriptive statistics  

Data Output Packages

  • ggridges - ridge plots  
  • ggstatsplot - statistical plots  
  • ggthemes - plot themes  
  • heplots - diagnostic plots  
  • janitor - data wrangling and tables  
  • knitr - dynamic documents in R  
  • RMarkdown - markdown syntax for R  

Other Utility Packages

  • cowsay - fun ASCII characters
  • here - working directory management  
  • remotes - install packages from GitHub