R is a powerful programming language that is explicitly designed for data science and analytics. Its open-source nature means plenty of free online resources are available for data practitioners to leverage for their projects.
In this article, we look at the most popular R-based data science repos on GitHub based on its number of Stars ★ and Forks Ψ.
For data practitioners who frequently use R for data wrangling and transformation, the data.table package is something that they will find very handy.
data.table provides a high-performance version of base R’s data.frame with syntax and feature enhancements for ease of use, convenience, and programming speed.
