must_learn.Rmd

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title: "Recommended R packages"
author: "Julian Flowers"
date: "22/06/2017"
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```{r setup, include=FALSE}
knitr::opts_chunk$set(echo = TRUE)
```

## Essentials for data preparation and output (bold = must learn)

All these packages are available from [CRAN](https://cran.r-project.org/)

* `tidyverse` <http://tidyverse.org>  
    + **`dplyr`**  
    + **`ggplot2`**
* `stringr`   <http://stringr.tidyverse.org>
* **`rmarkdown`** 
* **`readr`**
* **`readxl`**
* `data.table`
* `janitor`

## Time series

* `forecast`
* `seasonal`
* `prophet`
* `changepoint`


## Mapping

* `rgdal`
* `rgeos`
* `geojsonio`
* `ggmap`
* `tmap`
* `leaflet`
* `sp`

## Interactive charts/ tables

* `plotly`
* `ggvis`
* `highcharter`
* `rbokeh`
* `heatmaply`
* `DT`
* `rpivotTables`

## Literature review and text analysis

* `RISmed`
* `tm`
* `tidytext`
* `text2vec`
* `topicmodels`
* `LDAvis`

## Modelling

* `broom`
* `caret`
* `glm`
* `gam`
* `glmnet`

## Database connections

* `odbc`
* `DBI`