Learning R

SimpleR

John Verzani’s SimpleR is recommended as a brief introduction.

Cosma Shalizi resources

Cosma Shalizi has links to a variety of resources, some of which are for those who already know a bit of R and want to learn in greater dept.

Advanced R

Advanced R by Hadley Wickham is an excellent resource by one of the key influencers of R.

Programming with R

Programming with R by Software Carpentry is a gentle introduction to R for novices.

A student’s guide to R

A student’s guide to R a nice book by Nicholas Horton. Covers basics only. He has a more advanced book as well.

Miscllaneous

Beyond bar and line graphs

This paper aregues that “we urgently need to change our practices for presenting continuous data in small sample size studies.” In particular, bar and line graphs hide more than they reveal.

Weissgerber TL, Milic NM, Winham SJ, Garovic VD (2015) Beyond Bar and Line Graphs: Time for a New Data Presentation Paradigm. PLoS Biol 13(4): e1002128. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.1002128

Article on 25 years of R

R generation by Nick Thieme in Significance magazine is an account of the birth, growth, and future of R.