The key features of R are as follows:
- Data mining: The R package, data.table, developed by Dowle and Srinivasan, is arguably one of the most sophisticated packages for data mining in any language provides R users with the ability to query millions, if not billions of rows of data. In addition, there is tibble, an alternative to data.frame developed by Hadley Wickham. Other packages from Wickham include, plyr, dplyr and ggplot2 for visualization.
- Visualizations: The ggplot2 package is the most commonly used visualization package in R. Packages such as rcharts, htmlwidgets have also become extremely popular in recent years. Most of these packages allow R users to leverage elegant graphics features commonly found in JavaScript ...
