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A short list of online resources for self directed learning of the R Language and Environment for Statistical Computing and Graphics

Online Courses

Books:

  • R for Data Science by Hadley Wickham & Garrett Grolemund (an actual book that you can also read for free online)

Reference Cards/Cheat Sheets

  • From RStudio
  • Contributed documents on the CRAN site (scroll down to 'Short Documents and Reference Cards' section)
  • An 8 page introduction to R and two very useful packages targeted at complete beginners here

R User Groups/Meetups

Documentation on the Comprehensive R Archive Network (CRAN) Website

Where to get help:

  • Try searching for your question on Stackoverflow
  • Literally copy your error message from R and use it as a Google search query

Other:

There are lots of R courses and books you can pay for however I strongly encourage you to try the free options first.

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