R / RStudio

The academic standard for statistical computing and data visualisation; ggplot2 charts appear widely in top journals.

Details

R is a programming language designed for statistical analysis, and works very well with the RStudio integrated development environment. Charts produced with the ggplot2 package meet Nature/Science submission requirements out of the box. The tidyverse ecosystem covers the whole workflow of data cleaning, visualisation and modelling.

Common packages: ggplot2, tidyverse, lme4, vegan, raster/terra

Use cases: statistical modelling, publication-quality figures, ecological data analysis, agricultural data analysis

Used in these research workflows