resources
texts
R
- The R Project Homepage from which you can download R and access the Introduction to R (pdf) in an online format.
- The in-built help system is good. To access the page about using "pie" for example, simply type "?pie" and hit return.
- Try R Code School seems to be a nice general introduction to using R. If you're a programmer already, you might prefer the youtube videos from Roger Peng for the Computing for Data Analysis Coursera course (if you're not already a programmer, these videos are not the place to start learning R).
- I've heard good things (but haven't looked at them myself) about R Twotorials, two minute videos that cover some specific thing you might want to do in R. Looking at the titles I think they're mostly more advanced than we'll need but you might find something useful.
- A sequence of online R tutorials by K. Black.
- The R Cookbook, a nice guide that takes an approach that I think is very much in keeping with the class, is (or will be soon) on the reserve shelf in the library.
- Googling specific topics can be very successful. Sites I've never gone to as a first step but are regularly very helpful and among my first choices to check out, other things being equal, when they show up in response to a query:
- I haven't played with it much yet, but RSeek is a search engine designed to look for R-related material.
- R-bloggers is a blog aggregator. Lots of interesting posts come through; worth checking regularly if you get enthusiastic about R. Also a good place to search for what people have done with a particular topic/issue.
- fivethirtyeight data sets for R
ggplot2
