Open Source R Software Development Software for Windows

MetBrewer is an R package that provides color palettes inspired by artworks and collections in the Metropolitan Museum of Art (The Met). The idea is to draw on the rich visual heritage of fine art to generate palettes that are aesthetically pleasing and grounded in real-world artistic color usage. The palettes are curated, named after artworks or styles, and often include notes about colorblind-friendliness and contrast. The package supports both discrete and continuous palette types, with interpolation when more colors are requested than originally defined. It also provides ggplot2-friendly scale functions (scale_color_met_c, scale_fill_met_d, etc.) so integration into typical R plotting workflows is smooth. Internally, the package includes functions to list available palettes, check which are colorblind-friendly, and visualize all palettes at once.

The cheatsheets repository from RStudio is a curated collection of official cheat sheets for R, RStudio, the tidyverse, Shiny, and related data science tools. Each cheat sheet is a single (or double) page PDF that condenses important syntax, functions, workflows, and best practices into a visually organized format ideal for quick reference. The repository contains source files (R Markdown or LaTeX) that generate the cheat sheets, version history, and metadata (title, author, description) for each. It covers topics such as data wrangling, data import, modeling, visualization, RStudio IDE shortcuts, Shiny development, and the tidyverse suite (dplyr, ggplot2, tidyr, purrr). These cheat sheets are widely used by R learners, educators, and practitioners as quick reference tools, and they often ship with RStudio by default or are linked from RStudio’s help/documentation pages. Users can also contribute new cheat sheet proposals, corrections, or translations via pull requests.

In this tutorial, we describe a workflow to ensure long-term reproducibility of R-based data analyses. The workflow leverages established tools and practices from software engineering. It combines the benefits of various open-source software tools including R Markdown, Git, Make, and Docker, whose interplay ensures seamless integration of version management, dynamic report generation conforming to various journal styles, and full cross-platform and long-term computational reproducibility. The workflow ensures meeting the primary goals that 1) the reporting of statistical results is consistent with the actual statistical results (dynamic report generation), 2) the analysis exactly reproduces at a later point in time even if the computing platform or software is changed (computational reproducibility), and 3) changes at any time (during development and post-publication) are tracked, tagged, and documented while earlier versions of both data and code remain accessible.