Helpful Links

One of the great things about using R is the global community of R users and developers who collectively design and share a wealth of learning materials freely online. I’ve listed some of my favorites below.

Getting started with R

RYouWithMe is a great starter tutorial from RLadiesSydney and much better than anything I could put together. See more here

Swirl is an R package that you can install and then use to work your way through interactive tutorials. See more here.

Posit Recipes are code snippets for doing all kinds of tasks with R. See more here.

Many Cheatsheets have been created to help with various tasks in R. See more here.

If you want an entire book style introduction, there are few better than R for Data Science.

Style guides

As you develop R scripts, it helps to use a consistent style that will make them easier to read and easier to spot errors. It doesn’t particularly matter what style you use, just as long as you are consistent. Here are some example style guides:

Google’s R Style Guide

Tidyverse Style Guide

Other useful general R resources

Hands-On Programming with R