Arabic language library for Python, provides basic functions to manipulate Arabic letters and text

Note to self: please come back to this post with links on R, its packages and related resources.

Grammar of graphics

• https://github.com/tidyverse/ggplot2
• https://exts.ggplot2.tidyverse.org/gallery community-maintained list of extensions

Integration with reference manager Zotero

• https://github.com/oeysan/c2z (manipulate your Zotero collections, items from R; can be integrated with other tools such as cronR, mailR, or even HomeAssistant)

PDF tools

• https://ropensci.org/blog/2016/03/01/pdftools-and-jeroen (pdftools - A fast and portable PDF extractor)

Integration with GPG

• https://ropensci.org/technotes/2016/10/19/gpg-release (Encryption and Digital Signatures in R using GPG)

Web scraping

• https://blog.rsquaredacademy.com/web-scraping Introduction to web scraping with rvest, 2019
• https://www.brodrigues.co/blog/2018-11-01-nethack Scraping with rvest and building a data package, 2018
• My own package periodicdata uses rvest to create a data package

Email from R

• https://github.com/rstudio/blastula send great-looking HTML email messages from R
• https://github.com/datawookie/emayili send email messages from R
• https://github.com/rpremraj/mailR utility to send emails from R

Integration with MS Office (yes, yes, I know...)

• https://ardata-fr.github.io/officeverse
• https://github.com/davidgohel/officer
• https://github.com/davidgohel/flextable

Interfacing with Google Docs

• https://googlesheets4.tidyverse.org

Resources

• https://emilyriederer.netlify.app/post/team-of-packages (post of Emily Riederer's rstudio::global 2020 talk)
• https://indrajeetpatil.github.io/awesome-r-pkgtools Awesome R Package Development Tools, compiled by Indrajeet Patil, 2024
• https://win-vector.com/2017/02/05/evolving-r-tools-and-practices John Mount, 2017
• https://github.com/nanxstats/awesome-shiny-extensions
• https://zenodo.org/record/7023492#.YwnwHuxBxhH R from Zero to Hero, slides from talk by Batool Almarzouq (in Arabic)

Tools to consider

• https://alexioannides.com/2016/11/02/asynchronous-and-distributed-programming-in-r-with-the-future-package (the futures package: distributed computation, non-blocking async input/output, and more)
• https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/geomtextpath/vignettes/geomtextpath.html