Open Source

ggiraph

The ggiraph package let R users make ggplot interactive. These can be used within R Markdown documents and within shiny applications where points, titles and legends can be used as reactive inputs. The user documentation is available here: http://ardata.fr/ggiraph-book/.

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flextable

Create pretty tables for ‘HTML’, ‘PDF’, ‘Microsoft Word’, ‘RTF’ and ‘Microsoft PowerPoint’ documents. Functions are provided to let users create tables, modify and format their content. It extends package ‘officer’ and can be used within R markdown documents.

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officer

tabular and graphical reporting from R, it produces Microsoft Word documents and PowerPoint presentations. It can also import as data.frame content from Word and PowerPoint documents into R.

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rvg

Functions extending package ‘officer’ are provided to embed R graphics into ‘Microsoft PowerPoint’ presentations and ‘Microsoft Excel’ workbooks. These graphics can then be edited by end users.

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fpeek

Useful tools for R users that need to preview huge text files from R. The tool is also providing a function to get rid of encoding issues (i.e. when you read symbols such as ä, ä after importation).

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mschart

The mschart package provides a framework for easily create charts for ‘Microsoft PowerPoint’ documents. It has to be used with package officer that will produce the charts in new or existing PowerPoint or Word documents.

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Transforms LaTeX math expressions into HTML or Office Open XML Math, to embed equations in HTML, Microsoft Word or PowerPoint documents (via R Markdown or the ‘officer’ package).

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Locates external programs (Node.js, LibreOffice, Microsoft Office, Python, Pandoc, web browsers…) on the user’s machine, tests their availability and version, and calls them — regardless of the operating system.

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This tool can be used from cpp code and provide functions to compute string widths and heights given a font and a font size.

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munch

Renders rich inline text (bold, italic, code, links, images) in ‘grid’ graphics and ‘ggplot2’, from markdown or ‘flextable’ chunks.

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doconv

Converts documents to PDF or images, generates thumbnails, runs visual tests, and updates fields and tables of contents of Microsoft Word or RTF documents.

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Creates, stores, reads and manages structured collections of datasets and objects, bundled into a compressed archive using open formats (Parquet, JSON, YAML, spatial and raster data) for exchange with Python or Julia.

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