INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
One of the great things about R is the thousands of packages users have written to solve specific problems in various disciplines --
analyzing everything from weather or financial data to the human genome -- not to mention analyzing computer security-breach data.[ Need to
learn R or brush up on basics Download our free Beginner's Guide to R or the Advanced Beginner's Guide to R ]Some tasks are common to almost
all users, though, regardless of subject area: data import, data wrangling and data visualization
The table below show my favorite go-to packages for one of these three tasks (plus a few miscellaneous ones tossed in)
The package names in the table are clickable if you want more information
To find out more about a package once you've installed it, type help(package = "packagename") in your R console (of course substituting the
