This entry contains an collection of links with information about the R programming language.

Tutorials

Guru99 is a huge learning platform with topics like web development, big data, SQL, AI, and more. The R Tutorial for Beginners contains dozens of lessons with step-by-steps explanations and samples about the language, data analysis, machine learning, etc.

• R Tutorial for Beginners

Quick-R is a web site by Robert Kabacoff that ofers few tutorials about statistics, plogs and data management with R.

• Quick-R

A complete tutorial written by Kelly Black. It contains sections about statistics and simple/intermediate plots.

• R Tutorial

Reference guides

Generally speaking, reference guides have a lot of information about the language or packages (detailed parameter and function descriptions), but they’re not structured for learning the language.

Official documentation: the complete R language reference manual:

• Statistical Data Analysis

A “quick reference sheets” set (PDFs) about data loading, plotting engines, table management, etc.

• R Studio’s Cheat-sheets

A book about R recipes, with a section about ggplot2:

• R CookBook

R packages documentation (with a search engine):

• R-Documentation

Other links

This StackExchange question contains an extense collection of R links:

• Free resources for learning R

A blog entry about “how to defend the use of R“:

• How do you convince other people to use R?

Journal of Statistical Software is an on-line journal about using software for statistical application. Most of the articles are R based:

• Journal of Statistical Software

Writting R packages

This is a good guide to create R packages with help and documentation.

• Creating an R package for Research documentation