Discover and install useful RStudio addins
RStudio addins were released in early 2016 to provide anyone with the ability to add "extensions" to RStudio. This feature has quickly become popular, but discoverability was a problem: there's just no easy way to know what addins exist.
The addinslist package solves that problem in two ways:
This package provides a continuously updated list of RStudio addins that you can browse through (below).
After installing this package (
install.packages('addinslist')), your RStudio will get populated with a new addin called "Browse RStudio addins". This addin allows you to interactively browse through the list of addins, see which ones you already have installed, and let you install/uninstall the corresponding package of each addin. The following image shows how to access this "addin of addins" in RStudio.
If you made a useful RStudio addin, feel free to make a pull request on GitHub to add it to the list.
| Name | Description | Package | On CRAN? | Author | More links | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Browse RStudio addins | Browse and install RStudio addins | addinslist | :white_check_mark: | Dean Attali | Screenshot | |
| Colour picker | Lets you easily select colours | shinyjs | :white_check_mark: | Dean Attali | Screenshot, Demo video | |
| ggplot2 Marginal Plots | Add marginal plots to ggplot2 | ggExtra | :white_check_mark: | Dean Attali | Screenshot | |
| ggplot Theme Assist | Customize your ggplot theme | ggThemeAssist | :white_check_mark: | Calli Gross | Demo GIF | |
| Schedule R scripts on Windows | Use Windows task scheduler to schedule your R scripts (Windows) | taskscheduleR | :x: | jwijffels | Screenshot | |
| Schedule R scripts on Linux/Unix | Use cron to schedule your R scripts (Linux/Unix) | cronR | :x: | jwijffels | Screenshot | |
| Assign default values | Set function arguments in selection to their default values | jadd | :x: | Jenny Bryan | Demo GIF | |
| Wrap Rmd | Wrap selected R Markdown text but don't insert lines breaks into inline R code | WrapRmd | :x: | TJ Mahr | ||
| Tidy Data | Interactively build tidyr function call (gather) | tidyshiny | :x: | Mango Solutions | ||
| Lattice Plotting | Interactively build plots using the lattice system | addinplots | :x: | Homer White | ||
| Copy Frame to Clipboard | Copy a data.frame to the clipboard | copydat | :x: | Bay Area Air Quality Management District | Doesn't work on Windows | |
| Render Rmd in Console | Render an R Markdown document in the global environment | RStudioConsoleRender | :x: | Jeff Johnston | Blog post | |
| Document This | Auto-generate Roxygen skeletons for functions and data | docthis | :x: | Matthew Lincoln | ||
| Hist Add-In | Interactively create histograms with ggplot2 and obtain the R Code | limoaddin | :x: | Stanislaus Stadlmann | ||
| rpivotGadget | Add-in wrapper around the rpivotTable HTML widget | rpivotGadget | :x: | Dean Kilfoyle | ||
| Addin Manager | Install and remove addins | addinmanager | :x: | Colin Gillespie | Blog post | |
| Levels recoding | Interactively generate code to edit factor levels | questionr | :white_check_mark: | Julien Barnier | Demo video | |
| Levels ordering | Interactively generate code to reorder factor levels | questionr | :white_check_mark: | Julien Barnier | Demo video | |
| Variable cutting | Interactively generate cut() code | questionr | :white_check_mark: | Julien Barnier | Demo video | |
| ARIMA Picker | Interactively pick ARIMA parameters | arimaUI | :x: | Yves crutain | Blog post | |
| Input LaTeX Math | Input math expressions via the MathQuill library | bookdown | :x: | RStudio | ||
| Preview R-markdown Book | Run bookdown's serve_book() to live preview a book | bookdown | :x: | RStudio | ||
| Google API Auth | Authenticate with Google APIs | googleAuthR | :white_check_mark: | Mark Edmondson | Screenshot | |
| Word count add-in | Count non-code words in Rmd documents | wordcountaddin | :x: | Ben Marwick | Screenshot | |
| Copy value | Copy data to clipboard (arrays, data frames, matrices, tables, vectors) | snippetsaddin | :x: | Juraj Sofranko | Windows only | |
| Convert slash | Reverse slashes (eg in file paths) | snippetsaddin | :x: | Juraj Sofranko | Clipboard is Windows only | |
| Insert %>% | Insert pipe + reformat surrounding | snippetsaddin | :x: | Juraj Sofranko | ||
| Gotta Read 'Em All | RStudio Add-In to interactively read ALL the data into R | GREA | :x: | Stanislaus Stadlmann | ||
| Quick View Data Frame | Quickly render a data frame, or the code which generates it, in the RStudio View window | RStudioAddIns | :x: | digital-dharma | ||
| littleboxes | Easily add a boxed title in R scripts | littleboxes | :x: | thinkr | ||
| Insert citations | Search a BibTeX-file and insert formatted Markdown citations | citr | :white_check_mark: | Frederik Aust | Demo gif | |
| QRAGadget | A Shiny Gadget for Interactive QRA Visualizations | QRAGadget | :x: | Paul Govan | Screenshot | |
| assignparams | Evaluate function parameter in global environment | assignparams | :x: | Peter Meissner | DemoVideo | |
| radiant.data | A Shiny interface to visualize, summarize, transform, and combine data | radiant.data | :x: | Vincent Nijs | Documentation | |
| radiant | A Shiny interface for business analytics in R | radiant | :x: | Vincent Nijs | Documentation | |
| Add Crossref Citations | Add a new bibliography entry through Crossref DOI | rcrossref | :x: | Hao Zhu | Screenshoot | |
| mischelper | microbenchmark, profvis selected code, remove unneeded hard line breaks, flip windows path separator | mischelper | :x: | dracodoc | ||
| Merge data frames | Perform Inner, left, Right and Full Joins and create a new data frame | commonUtilAddins | :x: | sarupurisailalith | ||
| Convert Variable type | Convert variables' type into either factor, character or numeric in a data frame | commonUtilAddins | :x: | sarupurisailalith |