Resources for learning R
R Resources
Below are some resources for learning and understanding R. These links are to support further work and individual learning. You are not required to read/use any or all of these resources.
We will continue to add resources as we find them. If you have any suggestions then please do let James know at James.tripp@warwick.ac.uk.
| Format | Title | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Book | Data Visualisation for Social Science | An intermediate difficulty online book aimed at social scientists which uses the Tidyverse set of packages |
| Book | R for Data Science | A beginner/intermediate difficulty online book aimed at anyone who uses R for data processing and offers an introduction to the Tidyverse set of packages |
| Book | YaRrr! The Pirates Guide to R | An introductory online book outlining the basics of R |
| Book | An Introduction to R for Spatial Analysis and Mapping | A very accessible introduction to using R to process spatial data using GIStools package |
| Book | Advanced R | An advanced online R book aimed at intermediate programmers who want to understand some of the internals of the R programming language |
| Book | R packages | An advanced online R book aimed at programmers who want to create R packages |
| Book | Discovering Statistics using R | Readable introduction to basic inferential and descriptive descriptives used in the social sciences using R |
| Book | Applied Spatial Data Analysis with R (Use R!) | Intermediate book covering spatial data analysis with R. |
| Video | R Studio Webinars | Clear and diverse videos introducing how to use features of R and RStudio |
| Package | Swirl | An R package providing a tutorial to R within the R console |
| Webpage | Cookbook for R | Very accessible website solutions to common tasks and problems when analyzing data |
| Blog | R Bloggers | Blog aggregating R news and tutorials with an excellent digest email. |
| Webpage | Online learning list on RStudio | Online resource list curated by the RStudio team |
| Webpage | R blogger: Using times and dates | Page describing how to use times and dates |
| Webpage | CDRC spatial data analysis and visualisation in R | An excellent introduction to spatial data analysis and visualisation from the Consumer Data Research Centre./td> |
| Webpage | R Spatial | General introduction to spatial data analysis in R |
| Reference card | Base Graphics | Cheat sheet containing many of the base graphics commands for R |
| Reference card | RStudio cheat sheets | Web page linking to the many cheat sheets created by the RStudio team |
| Reference card | RStudio Base R Cheat Sheet | Cheat sheet containing the many of the base functions in R. A useful overview of the core components of R |
| Reference card | How big is your graph? | Cheat sheet helping you to calculate the various parts of a graph |
| Reference card | CRAN base reference card | A cheat sheet from the CRAN package repository which provides an overview to the main functions in R and what they do |
| Reference card | R Data Visualisation Cheat Sheets | Web page containing a series of data visualisation cheat sheets for R |
| Reference card | UseR2012 | Cheat sheet for using spatial vector and raster data. Uses the sp, raster, egdal, rgeos and spdep packages |
| Mailing list | R Mailing lists | Overview of the official R mailing lists |
| Mailing list | R-help Mailing list | Page for subscribing to the R-help mailing list |
| Mailing list | Google search of R-help Archive | Google search of the R-help archive of the text 'term'. Replace 'term' with your query in google to search the entire R-help mailing list rchive |