Further Resources

 

R resources

 

Getting Help

• Google it!: Try Googling any error messages you get. It’s not cheating and everyone does it! You’ll be surprised how many other people have probably had the same problem and solved it.
• Stack Overflow: There are many thousands of questions relevant to R on Stack Overflow. Here are the most popular ones, ranked by vote. Make sure you search for similar questions before asking your own, and make sure you include a reproducible example to get the most useful advice. A reproducible example is a minimal example that lets others who are trying to help you to see the error themselves.

 

General R Resources

• R-Project: User contributed documentation
• The R Journal: Journal of the R project for statistical computing
• Swirl: An R package that teaches you R from within R
• RStudio’s printable cheatsheets
• Rseek: A custom Google search for R-related sites

 

R markdown resources

• Basic markdown + R markdown reference
• A good markdown reference
• A good 10-minute markdown tutorial
• RStudio’s R markdown cheatsheet and R markdown reference sheet
• The R markdown documentation including a getting started guide, a gallery of demos, and several articles for more advanced usage.
• The knitr website has lots of useful reference material about how knitr works.

 

Git and GitHub resources

• Happy Git: Great resource for using Git and GitHub
• Version control with RStudio: RStudio support document for using version control
• Using Git from RStudio: Good 10 minute guide
• The R Class: In depth guide to using Git and GitHub with RStudio