Question

Does anyone know a good online resource for example of R code?

The programs do not have to be written for illustrative purposes, I am really just looking for some places where a bunch of R code has been written to give me a sense of the syntax and capabilities of the language?

Edit: I have read the basic documentation on the main site, but was wondering if there was some code samples or even programs that show how R is used by different people.

Answer 1

I just found this question and thought I would add a few resources to it. I really like the Quick-R site:

http://www.statmethods.net/

Muenchen has written a book about using R if you come from SAS or SPSS. Originally it was an 80 page online doc that Springer encouraged him to make a 400+ page book out of. The original short form as well as the book are here:

http://rforsasandspssusers.com/

You’ve probably already seen these, but worth listing: http://cran.r-project.org/doc/manuals/R-intro.pdf http://cran.r-project.org/doc/contrib/Owen-TheRGuide.pdf http://cran.r-project.org/doc/contrib/Kuhnert+Venables-R_Course_Notes.zip

I don’t want to sound like a trite RTFM guy, but the help files generally have great short snips of working code as examples. I’m no R pro so I end up having to deconstruct the examples to understand them. That process, while tedious, is really useful.

Good luck!

EDIT: well I hesitated to be self linking (it feels a bit masturbatory) but here’s my own list of R resources with descriptions and comments on each: http://www.cerebralmastication.com/?page_id=62