With so much emphasis on getting insight from data these days, it’s no wonder that R is rapidly rising in popularity. R was designed from day one to handle statistics and data visualization, it’s ...

The table below shows my favorite go-to R packages for data import, wrangling, visualization and analysis — plus a few miscellaneous tasks tossed in. The package names in the table are clickable if ...

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