Winston Chang
40 packages on CRAN
8 packages on GitHub
Tools to find bad commits with git bisect. See https://github.com/wch/bisectr for examples and test script templates.
Provides a wrapper for the download.file function, making it possible to download files over HTTPS on Windows, Mac OS X, and other Unix-like platforms. The 'RCurl' package provides this functionality (and much more) but can be difficult to install because it must be compiled with external dependencies. This package has no external dependencies, so it is much easier to install.
Tools to using fonts other than the standard PostScript fonts. This package makes it easy to use system TrueType fonts and with PDF or PostScript output files, and with bitmap output files in Windows. extrafont can also be used with fonts packaged specifically to be used with, such as the fontcm package, which has Computer Modern PostScript fonts with math symbols. See https://github.com/wch/extrafont for instructions and examples.
Fast implementation of a key-value store. Environments are commonly used as key-value stores, but every time a new key is used, it is added to R's global symbol table, causing a small amount of memory leakage. This can be problematic in cases where many different keys are used. Fastmap avoids this memory leak issue by implementing the map using data structures in C++.
Data sets used in the book "R Graphics Cookbook" by Winston Chang, published by O'Reilly Media.
An implementation of an interactive grammar of graphics, taking the best parts of 'ggplot2', combining them with the reactive framework of 'shiny' and drawing web graphics using 'vega'.
Creates classes with reference semantics, similar to R's built-in reference classes. Compared to reference classes, R6 classes are simpler and lighter-weight, and they are not built on S4 classes so they do not require the methods package. These classes allow public and private members, and they support inheritance, even when the classes are defined in different packages.
Contains the program 'ttf2pt1', for use with the 'extrafont' package. This product includes software developed by the 'TTF2PT1' Project and its contributors.
Makes it incredibly easy to build interactive web applications with R. Automatic "reactive" binding between inputs and outputs and extensive prebuilt widgets make it possible to build beautiful, responsive, and powerful applications with minimal effort.
Provides Bootstrap 2 web components for use with the Shiny package. With versions of Shiny prior to 0.11, these Bootstrap 2 components were included as part of the package. Later versions of Shiny include Bootstrap 3, so the Bootstrap 2 components have been moved into this package for those uses who rely on features specific to Bootstrap 2.
Create dashboards with 'Shiny'. This package provides a theme on top of 'Shiny', making it easy to create attractive dashboards.
For automated testing of Shiny applications, using a headless browser, driven through 'WebDriver'.
Themes for use with Shiny. Includes several Bootstrap themes from <http://bootswatch.com/>, which are packaged for use with Shiny applications.
Provides a set of functions for interacting with the 'Digital Ocean' API at <https://developers.digitalocean.com/documentation/v2>, including creating images, destroying them, rebooting, getting details on regions, and available images.
R wrapper around the argon HTML library. More at <https://demos.creative-tim.com/argon-design-system/>.
Make 'Bootstrap 4' dashboards. Use the full power of 'AdminLTE3', a dashboard template built on top of 'Bootstrap 4' <https://github.com/ColorlibHQ/AdminLTE>.
It is sometimes useful to perform a computation in a separate R process, without affecting the current R process at all. This packages does exactly that.
A 'ggplot2' extension to visualize two variables through one color aesthetic via mapping to a color space projection. With this technique for 2-D color mapping, one can create a bivariate choropleth in R as well as other visualizations with multivariate color scales. Includes two new scales and a new guide for 'ggplot2'.
Management and exploratory analysis of spatial data in landscape genetics. Easy integration of information from multiple sources with "ecogen" objects.
Extends 'ggplot2' functionality to the 'partykit' package. 'ggparty' provides the necessary tools to create clearly structured and highly customizable visualizations for tree-objects of the class 'party'.
A 'ggplot2' extension that provides flipped components: horizontal versions of 'Stats' and 'Geoms', and vertical versions of 'Positions'.
Interact with the 'Google Compute Engine' API in R. Lets you create, start and stop instances in the 'Google Cloud'. Support for preconfigured instances, with templates for common R needs.
Provides low-level socket and protocol support for handling HTTP and WebSocket requests directly from within R. It is primarily intended as a building block for other packages, rather than making it particularly easy to create complete web applications using httpuv alone. httpuv is built on top of the libuv and http-parser C libraries, both of which were developed by Joyent, Inc. (See LICENSE file for libuv and http-parser license information.)
A system for 'declaratively' creating graphics, based on "The Grammar of Graphics". You provide the data, tell 'ggplot2' how to map variables to aesthetics, what graphical primitives to use, and it takes care of the details.
Executes arbitrary R or C functions some time after the current time, after the R execution stack has emptied. The functions are scheduled in an event loop.
Functions for working with legends and axis lines of 'ggplot2', facets that repeat axis lines on all panels, and some 'knitr' extensions.
This package provides user-level functions to manage namespaces not (yet) available in base R: 'registerNamespace', 'unregisterNamespace', 'makeNamespace', and 'getRegisteredNamespace' ('makeNamespaces' is extracted from the R 'base' package source code: src/library/base/R/namespace.R)
Simulates the process of installing a package and then attaching it. This is a key part of the 'devtools' package as it allows you to rapidly iterate while developing a package.
Tools to run system processes in the background. It can check if a background process is running; wait on a background process to finish; get the exit status of finished processes; kill background processes. It can read the standard output and error of the processes, using non-blocking connections. 'processx' can poll a process for standard output or error, with a timeout. It can also poll several processes at once.
Download and install R packages stored in 'GitHub', 'BitBucket', or plain 'subversion' or 'git' repositories. This package provides the 'install_*' functions in 'devtools'. Indeed most of the code was copied over from 'devtools'.
Installs shiny apps packaged as stand-alone Electron apps using Inno Setup, an open source software that builds installers for Windows programs <http://www.jrsoftware.org/ishelp/>.
Query and print information about the current R session. It is similar to 'utils::sessionInfo()', but includes more information about packages, and where they were installed from.
A set of RStudio Addins to help interactively test and build regular expressions. Provides a Shiny gadget interface for interactively constructing the regular expression and viewing the results from common string-searching functions. The gadget interface includes a helpful regex syntax reference sheet and a library of common patterns.
Extend 'shinydashboard' with 'AdminLTE2' components. 'AdminLTE2' is a free 'Bootstrap 3' dashboard template available at <https://adminlte.io>. Customize boxes, add timelines and a lot more.
'R' interface to the 'Tabler' HTML template. See more here <https://tabler.io>. 'tablerDash' is a light 'Bootstrap 4' dashboard template. There are different layouts available such as a one page dashboard or a multi page template, where the navigation menu is contained in the navigation bar. A fancy example is available at <https://dgranjon.shinyapps.io/shinyMons/>.
A client for the 'WebDriver' 'API'. It allows driving a (probably headless) web browser, and can be used to test web applications, including 'Shiny' apps. In theory it works with any 'WebDriver' implementation, but it was only tested with 'PhantomJS'.
Provides a 'WebSocket' client interface for R. 'WebSocket' is a protocol for low-overhead real-time communication: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WebSocket>.
A set of functions to run code 'with' safely and temporarily modified global state. Many of these functions were originally a part of the 'devtools' package, this provides a simple package with limited dependencies to provide access to these functions.