R Links

Please let me know if any of these links are down or if there are other links you think should be included on this page!

Methods links

Download R:

CRAN website

Download RStudio:

Rstudio main site
R projects (useful feature of RStudio)
Rstudio online learning resources

R Introductory Tutorials and Courses

Swirl Stats- learn R in R Datacamp’s- “Intro to R”
Prelude in R
R for beginners
Hadley Wickhams “R for Data Science” Modern Dive
Data carpentry course Many other resources Many R Books (and other useful resources)
Base R tutorial- oldie but goodie

R Examples (some people learn best by just playing with existing code!)

R by example

R reference cards (print ’em out and hang by your office desk!)

Base R Cheat sheet
Short Reference Card
More comprehensive reference card More advanced base R cheat sheet
RStudio cheatsheets- very useful!
Includes cheatsheets for R markdown, shiny, data wrangling with “dplyr” and much more!

R Markdown (for publishing and communicating in R. This website was built in R Markdown!)

Guide for Pandoc Markdown
Website development for RMarkdown
YAML: YAML Ain’t Markup Language!
a nice simple Markdown syntax guide

GIT (for sharing your code and collaborating with others!)

Excellent intro GIT tutorial

Bayesian Statistics

MCMC for Dummies… (basis of MCMC lecture…)
BUGS online manual
JAGS online manual Bayesian Methods for Hackers!
NIMBLE (alternative implementation of BUGS language for R)

Time Series Analysis

A regression approach to time series analysis Forecasting online textbook

Ordination

Practical guide to ordination for Ecologists

Tree-based machine learning

Breiman’s guide to Random Forest
Vignette: species distribution modeling

Spatial Analysis in R

“raster” package vignette
online textbook: spatial data science with R

Spatial Capture Recapture (secr)

‘secr’ Google Group
BUGS code for secr

Weekly math/bio “Stats chats”