rStudyResources.md

R Study Resources

Packages resources

• Tutorial on plyr http://seananderson.ca/2013/12/01/plyr.html
• Tutorial on reshape http://seananderson.ca/2013/10/19/reshape.html

Graphics resources

• Quick introduction to ggplot2()
  http://chrisladroue.com/extra/ggplot2Intro/introductionGGplot2/

• Another tutorial on ggplot2()
  http://tomwallis.info/2014/04/21/graphically-exploring-data-using-ggplot2/

• One more - from Harvard
  http://www.slideshare.net/izahn/rgraphics-12040991

• "R Graphics Cookbook" by Winston Chang
  http://books.google.co.nz/books?id=fxL4tu5bzAAC&printsec=frontcover&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false

  • And collection of code and graphs from above book
    http://www.cookbook-r.com/Graphs/

• Comparison of lattice() and ggplot2() packages, with code and graphical output
  https://learnr.files.wordpress.com/2009/08/latbook.pdf

• How to change fonts in ggplot2()
  http://www.r-bloggers.com/change-fonts-in-ggplot2-and-create-xkcd-style-graphs/

• How to create animated GIFs in R
  http://ryouready.wordpress.com/2010/11/21/animate-gif-images-in-r-imagemagick/

• Recently developed rCharts() - package for producing interactive graphics for online applications
  http://rcharts.io/

• Another useful graphical package - iPlots()
  http://www.rosuda.org/iplots/

General topics (not R)

• Singular Value Decomposition (SVD) Tutorial
  http://www.puffinwarellc.com/index.php/news-and-articles/articles/30-singular-value-decomposition-tutorial.html

• Short explanation about Singular Value Decomposition (requires login)
  https://class.coursera.org/exdata-003/forum/thread?thread_id=166