Interesting repositories & links

[natj]

Here we can continue the discussion about different interesting repositories out there. Here are some that were mentioned already during the coffee break:

• https://github.com/Open-Astrophysics-Bookshelf
• https://github.com/csc-training
• Mayavi 3D plot tool
• Color Brewer - collection of color palettes and maps
• Matplotlib

[Ilia-Kosenkov]

• Comprehensice R Archive Network (CRAN)
• tidyverse package
• A great collection of cheat sheets
• Microsoft R Application Network (MRAN)
• IDEs:
  • Rstudio & Visual Studio with RTVS plugin
• Editor: VS Code
• Packages:
  • tikzDevice builds LaTeX files from your plots - can be inlined into your paper or compiled into .ps/.pdf (with standAlone = TRUE key in the constructor)
  • MASS's kde2d - a 2D kernel denstiy estimator
  • sqldf allows SQL-compatible queries to be applied to R's data.frames.
  • magrittr extends functionality of pipes from tidyverse
  • RColorBrewer provides nice colour palettes for your plots
  • foreach, parallel & e.g. doSNOW for parallel execution
  • My collection of tools I use (Rlibs, can be installed from within R as devtools::install_github("Ilia-Kosenkov/RLibs/package")

Python and MPI examples:

• mpi4py provides a set of examples utilizing both Python and MPI capabilities. Requires MPI installed.