Hi,
There are a lot of packages available in R. However if you are not able to use R, make sure you enable its visualizations from the options menu.
You can now load your data with the help of R SCRIPTS into Power BI. To enable option for "Run R Scripts" you need to go to queries editor and transform your data into usable format first.
The list of some of the packages available in R as follows:
To load data
DBI - The standard for for communication between R and relational database management systems. Packages that connect R to databases depend on the DBI package.
odbc - Use any ODBC driver with the odbc package to connect R to your database. Note: RStudio professional products come with professional drivers for some of the most popular databases.
RMySQL, RPostgresSQL, RSQLite - If you'd like to read in data from a database, these packages are a good place to start. Choose the package that fits your type of database.
XLConnect, xlsx - These packages help you read and write Micorsoft Excel files from R. You can also just export your spreadsheets from Excel as .csv's.
foreign - Want to read a SAS data set into R? Or an SPSS data set? Foreign provides functions that help you load data files from other programs into R.
haven - Enables R to read and write data from SAS, SPSS, and Stata.
To manipulate data
dplyr - Essential shortcuts for subsetting, summarizing, rearranging, and joining together data sets. dplyr is our go to package for fast data manipulation.
tidyr - Tools for changing the layout of your data sets. Use the gather and spread functions to convert your data into the tidy format, the layout R likes best.
stringr - Easy to learn tools for regular expressions and character strings.
lubridate - Tools that make working with dates and times easier.
To visualize data
ggplot2 - R's famous package for making beautiful graphics. ggplot2 lets you use the grammar of graphics to build layered, customizable plots.
ggvis - Interactive, web based graphics built with the grammar of graphics.
rgl - Interactive 3D visualizations with R
htmlwidgets - A fast way to build interactive (javascript based) visualizations with R. Packages that implement htmlwidgets include:
- leaflet (maps)
- dygraphs (time series)
- DT (tables)
- diagrammeR (diagrams)
- network3D (network graphs)
- threeJS (3D scatterplots and globes).
To model data
car - car's Anova function is popular for making type II and type III Anova tables.
mgcv - Generalized Additive Models
lme4/nlme - Linear and Non-linear mixed effects models
randomForest - Random forest methods from machine learning
multcomp - Tools for multiple comparison testing
vcd - Visualization tools and tests for categorical data
glmnet - Lasso and elastic-net regression methods with cross validation
survival - Tools for survival analysis
caret - Tools for training regression and classification models
To report results
shiny - Easily make interactive, web apps with R. A perfect way to explore data and share findings with non-programmers.
R Markdown - The perfect workflow for reproducible reporting.
xtable - The xtable function takes an R object (like a data frame) and returns the latex or HTML code you need to paste a pretty version of the object into your documents. Copy and paste, or pair up with R Markdown.
For Spatial data
sp, maptools - Tools for loading and using spatial data including shapefiles.
maps - Easy to use map polygons for plots.
ggmap - Download street maps straight from Google maps and use them as a background in your ggplots.
For Time Series and Financial data
zoo - Provides the most popular format for saving time series objects in R.
xts - Very flexible tools for manipulating time series data sets.
quantmod - Tools for downloading financial data, plotting common charts, and doing technical analysis.
To write high performance R code
Rcpp - Write R functions that call C++ code for lightning fast speed.
data.table - An alternative way to organize data sets for very, very fast operations. Useful for big data.
parallel - Use parallel processing in R to speed up your code or to crunch large data sets.
To work with the web
XML - Read and create XML documents with R
jsonlite - Read and create JSON data tables with R
httr - A set of useful tools for working with http connections
To write your own R packages
devtools - An essential suite of tools for turning your code into an R package.
testthat - testthat provides an easy way to write unit tests for your code projects.
roxygen2 - A quick way to document your R packages. roxygen2 turns inline code comments into documentation pages and builds a package namespace.
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