Learning R

Free Online Books

• “Introduction to Data Science: Data Wrangling and Visualization with R”, by Refael Irizarry

• “Introduction to Data Science: Statistics and Prediction Algorithms Through Case Studies”, by Refael Irizarry

• “R for Data Science”, by Hadley Wickham & Garrett Grolemund

• “YaRrr! The Pirate’s Guide to R”, by Nathaniel Phillips

• “An introduction to Biostatistics using R”, by Glover & Mitchell

• “Introductory Biostatistics with R”, by Dylan Childs, Bethan Hindle & Philip Warren

• “Applied Biostats”, by Yaniv Brandvain.

Videos

• Code Like a Pro
• Intro to Rstudio and Rstudio Cloud
• Overview of R markdown
• Rmarkdown with Rstudio
• This youtube playlist

Tutorials

• From your textbook
• Quick-R

Getting help with R

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• Getting help with R
• Stack overflow: topics are tagged, and “r” is a very popular tag on the site. To go directly to R-related topics, visit http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/r.
• Rstudio Community
• Reddit: r/rstats, r/Rlanguage, r/rprogramming, r/RStudio
• Github: github is a must for anyone in datascience and has many functions. For your purposes, searching for a particular package and looking into their “issues” page can be very helpful. E.g., here is the issues page for the rmarkdown package.