R Packages

Here are some recommendations for R packages

1. ggplot (grammar of graphics)
2. dplyr (handling data frames, pipe functions)
3. vote (vote tally for various electoral systems)
4. wbstats (access to the World Bank data base)
5. OECD (access to the OECD data base) 
6. giscoR (European geo data) 
7. Eurostat (access to Eurostat data) 
8. rdbnomics (R access to hundreds of millions data series from DBnomics API)