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 dot tripp at warwick dot ac dot uk.
| Format | Title | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Book | An intermediate difficulty online book aimed at social scientists which uses the Tidyverse set of packages | |
| Book | 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 | An introductory online book outlining the basics of R | |
| Book | A very accessible introduction to using R to process spatial data using GIStools package | |
| Book | An advanced online R book aimed at intermediate programmers who want to understand some of the internals of the R programming language | |
| Book | An advanced online R book aimed at programmers who want to create R packages | |
| Book | Readable introduction to basic inferential and descriptive descriptives used in the social sciences using R | |
| Book | Intermediate book covering spatial data analysis with R. | |
| Video | Clear and diverse videos introducing how to use features of R and RStudio | |
| Package | An R package providing a tutorial to R within the R console | |
| Webpage | Very accessible website solutions to common tasks and problems when analyzing data | |
| Blog | Blog aggregating R news and tutorials with an excellent digest email. | |
| Webpage | Online resource list curated by the RStudio team | |
| Webpage | Page describing how to use times and dates | |
| Webpage | An excellent introduction to spatial data analysis and visualisation from the Consumer Data Research Centre./td> | |
| Webpage | General introduction to spatial data analysis in R | |
| Reference card | Cheat sheet containing many of the base graphics commands for R | |
| Reference card | Web page linking to the many cheat sheets created by the RStudio team | |
| Reference card | Cheat sheet containing the many of the base functions in R. A useful overview of the core components of R | |
| Reference card | Cheat sheet helping you to calculate the various parts of a graph | |
| 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 | Web page containing a series of data visualisation cheat sheets for R | |
| Reference card | Cheat sheet for using spatial vector and raster data. Uses the sp, raster, egdal, rgeos and spdep packages | |
| Mailing list | Overview of the official R mailing lists | |
| Mailing list | Page for subscribing to the R-help mailing list | |
| Mailing list | 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 |