R

This is a free, open-source statistical programming language. It is used mainly in research, but it is also a standard tool in many organisations. This tool is great for statistical analysis.

Tidyverse

tidyverse is a collection of packages designed for data science, they share the same design and data structures. …. (followed by list of tidyverse packages) …

ggplot2
  • Creating graphics

dplyr

dplyr helps with common data manipulation like selcting, filtering, adding or rearranging columns, aggreagtion etc.

purrr

purrr helps with data wrangling

tidymodels
  • modeling and machine learning

tidyr

tidyr helps creating tidy data, defined as data where every column is a variable, every row is an observation, and every cell is a single value.

Other packages … [using this header for convenience until we have more categories]

rio
  • data import/export

shiny
  • report results, e.g., build interactive web apps

mlr
  • machine learning tasks

leaflet
  • mapping and working on interactive maps

sp
  • processing spatial data

maptools
  • processing spatial data

zoo
  • for time series data

xlsx
  • for time series data

climpact
  • heatwave/extremes statistics

Recommended list of packages:

Development environments

Rstudio IDE