Question

I have a book called Statistics for Computer Scientists as well as my engineering statistics textbook, so I’m thinking about using various problems and examples in those to learn R, which is probably a good start. But can anyone recommend books and web sites that have information about R, especially if they are designed for people with some knowledge in statistics? Are there any medium to large projects or real-world situations where I, as a college student studying software engineering, might be able to use R to get a feel for it?

See Also

• Understandable documentation about R, which has some links to R documentation. There are also some basic information/tutorial sites.
• Books for learning the R language, which focuses on books for learning R.

Answer 1

This is essentially a dump of my bookmarks, and what I have on my desk.

Getting started:

1. A tutorial video on R
2. John Cook’s introduction to R for programmers
3. R reference card
4. Interactive tutorial: Introduction to R

Advanced:

1. The R-Gallery
2. The R Wiki
3. Quick-R on advanced statistics

Books:

1. The R Book (Covers the basics, classical statisitical tests, basic statistical modeling (ANOVA, ANCOVA, GLM, non-linear models, etc.), advanced statistical modeling (tree models, time-series analysis, spatial statistics, survival analysis, simulation), and twiddling with the graphics output.
2. R Graphics (How to make R graphics look sharp)