Up and running with R

• R website
• CRAN, Comprehensive R Archive Network –download R and additional 3rd party packages
• RStudio – a 3rd party integrated development environment for R (install R before RStudio)
• All R packages available from CRAN, sorted by name
• All R packages available from CRAN, sorted by date of publication
• Browse CRAN packages by topic and tools to automatically install all packages for special areas of interest

Packages for common needs

Data wrangling

• data.table
• dplyr
• tidyr

Statistics

• stats (available by default)
• car
• ez

Graphics

• dygraphs
• ggplot2
• plotly

Reporting

• knitr
• rmarkdown
• shiny

Further Resources

• Official R manuals
• RSEEK – 3rd party search engine for R content
• RStudio cheat sheets – quick reference guides for various packages and tasks
• Google’s R Style Guide – good reference for making R code easier to read and share
• CodeSchool.com – free online course
• Coursera.org – free online course
• DataCamp.com – free online course
• Harvard.edu – free online course
• Lynda.com – free online course
• Springboard.com – free online course on data science with a module dedicated to R
• R-Statistics blog
• rOpenSci – community effort for creating open tools for open science
• Stanford.edu – free online course
• UCLA.edu – extensive set of guides for learning statistics and R from beginner to advanced levels
• VarianceExplained.org – free online course
• Vimeo.com – many free video tutorials
• YouTube.com – many free video tutorials