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Hi everyone, welcome back. If you’re working on a data science project and using R, you will likely be wanting to use third party libraries to help complete tasks. This will be list of free open source libraries that you can use for data science purposes. A software library is a set of files already written by a third party so you can use. No need to write new code if it already exists!
Ggplot2
If you’re using R for data science purposes, you’ll likely need some sort of data visualization tool to present your data. Ggplot2 is a great library for data visualization. Ggplot2 can help create all sorts of graphs and charts. Ggplot2 has capabilities to break down graphs to smaller components such as scales and layers which gives more control and customization options to the developer. Ggplot works by adding plot points of data to a data frame, which is then visualized. Check out Ggplot2.
Shiny
Shiny is used for creating web applications. Shiny provides built in widgets that allows the user to interact with the web app. With Shiny, web apps can be created with just R, but HTML, CSS, and JavaScript can also be used to add additional functionality or customization options that R alone wouldn’t be able to add. Web apps made by Shiny can easily be hosted onto a personal server or a…
