R General Learning and Reference

Published

December 1, 2023

Resources For Learning R

There are so many resources for learning R. Different people will have different suggestions. Please feel free to share your own favourite learning approaches.

R for Data Science

I think a good entry to R is the book R for Data Science. This book emphasizes the Tidyverse packages (e.g., ggplot, dplyr, and many others). The Tidyverse package functions over base R programming because they are more intuitive and use a bit more natural language. However, it is very important to know and understand base R syntax and functions; you will see it and need to be able to understand it. And there are some cases where it will be preferable. (Jeff M)

Big Book of R

A reference nad resource list on all sorts of R topics.

What They Forgot to Teach You About R

Talks about workflow and “personal R administration”, and debugging.

Other Resources