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 ...

Although you can type commands directly into the R console (bottom-left pane in RStudio), you are better off creating a script file, which can be saved for future use. You execute the lines in the ...

Although you can type commands directly into the R console (bottom-left pane in RStudio), you are better off creating a script file, which can be saved for future use. You execute the lines in the ...

Once you’ve installed and configured R to your liking, it’s time to start using it to work with data. Yes, you can type your data directly into R’s interactive console. But for any kind of serious ...

See how to join two data sets by one or more common columns using base R’s merge function, dplyr join functions, and the speedy data.table package. R has a number of quick, elegant ways to join data ...