I realized that there is no easy to use open source package for ensembling in R. Sometime back in one of the competition on Analytics Vidhya, I was trying to ensemble varioud models.

You can realise the importance of packages in R by this handy infographic with the most commonly used libraries in R: This signifies that most of the packages are built over the functionality of some other package(s).įor example, a package I authored named ensembleR has main dependency on caret package along with some other packages: e1071, ipred, knitr, rmarkdown which are used for running the examples and creating vignettes. There are 10,000+ packages on CRAN until today and majority of these packages have dependency on some other R package(s). Sometimes, packages come with sample data as well.

Advantages and challenges of creating a packageĪ package in R is simply a reusable R function(s) with standard and self-explanatory documentation on how to use it.

Also, we are going to create a package and contribute it to the open source community. In order to help expand the community further, I decided to write an article about the process of package creation and how to contribute a package to open source R community. It was my way to starting to give back and I know this is just the start. For me, creating a package and giving it back to the community meant a huge thing. While a lot of tutorials are being shared across on solving problems using R, the open source development gets lesser attention.

These packages form the backbone of R programming language.

The main reason for its popularity is continuous contribution and support from R practitioners in the data science community. For data science, R is one of the most popular language. The community members contribute to the development of the programming language and these contributions are publicly available to be accessed by anyone.Ĭommunity participation is the prime reason for continuous development and innovation in these open source languages like R, C++, C#, Java, PHP, Python, Ruby, etc. Open source is a decentralised development model which is based on community participation.

Most popular programming languages have one thing in common – they are all “Open source”.

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