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available on the Internet.
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name, size or date (e.g., to see which documents have been updated latetly).
Documents with more than 100 pages:
“Visual Statistics. Use R!”
by
Alexey Shipunov
PDF
2019-03-17, 429 pages).
All book materials are accessible from
Alexey Shipunov's English R page
“Using R for Data Analysis and Graphics -
Introduction, Examples and Commentary”
by John Maindonald (
PDF
, data
sets and scripts are available at
JM's homepage
).
“Practical Regression and Anova using R”
by Julian Faraway
PDF
data sets and scripts are available at the
book
homepage
).
The
Web
Appendix
to the book “An R Companion to Applied
Regression” (second edition) by John Fox and Sanford Weisberg
contains information about R to fit a variety of regression models.
“An Introduction to S and the Hmisc and Design
Libraries”
by Carlos Alzola and Frank E. Harrell,
especially of interest to SAS users, users of the Hmisc or Design
packages, or R users interested in data manipulation, recoding,
etc. (
PDF
“Statistical Computing and Graphics Course
Notes”
by Frank E. Harrell, includes material on S,
LaTeX, reproducible research, making good graphs, brief overview of
computer languaes, etc. (
PDF
).
“An Introduction to R: Software for
Statistical Modelling & Computing”
by Petra Kuhnert and Bill Venables
ZIP
3.8MB
):
A 360 page PDF document of lecture notes in combination with the
data sets and R scripts used in the manuscript.
“Introduction to the R Project for Statistical
Computing for Use at the ITC”
by David Rossiter
PDF
, 2012-08-20,
141 pages).
“Analysis of Epidemiological Data Using R and
Epicalc”
by Virasakdi Chongsuvivatwong
PDF
).
“Statistics Using R with Biological Examples”
by Kim Seefeld and Ernst Linder
PDF
).
“IcebreakeR”
by Andrew Robinson
PDF
, 2016-06-21,
161 pages).
“Applied Statistics for Bioinformatics Using R”
by Wim Krijnen
PDF
2009-11-17, 278 pages).
“An Introduction to R”
by Longhow Lam
PDF
2010-10-28, 212 pages).
“R and Data Mining: Examples and Case Studies”
by Yanchang Zhao
PDF
2013-04-26, 160 pages).
“A Student's Guide to R”
by Nicholas J. Horton, Randall Pruim, and Daniel T. Kaplan
PDF
2015-11-16, 119 pages).
“Is R Suitable Enough for Biostatisticians?”
by Adrian Olszewski
PDF
2015-06-28, 365 pages).
Documents with fewer than 100 pages:
“R for Beginners”
by Emmanuel Paradis
PDF
).
“Kickstarting R (version 1.6)”
compiled by Jim Lemon, a short introduction in English as HTML
files: download as
gzipped TAR
or
ZIP
; or
browse directly
“Notes on the use of R for psychology experiments and
questionnaires”
by Jonathan Baron and Yuelin Li
PDF
). A
browsable version is available at
JB's
homepage
“R for Windows Users (version 2.0)”
by Ko-Kang Wang
PDF
LaTeX
source
).
“Building Microsoft Windows Versions of R and R
packages under Intel Linux”
by Jun Yan and A. J. Rossini
PDF
associated
Makefile
).
“A Guide for the Unwilling S User”
by Patrick Burns
PDF
).
“The R language — a short
companion”
by Marc Vandemeulebroecke
PDF
).
“Fitting Distributions with R”
by Vito Ricci
PDF
).
“Econometrics in R”
by Grant Farnsworth
PDF
LaTeX source
).
“The Friendly Beginners' R Course”
by Toby Marthews
ZIP
, 2014-05-13, 14 pages).
“An R companion to ‘Experimental Design’ ”
by Vikneswaran
PDF
).
“The R Guide”
(version 2.5)
by Jason Owen
PDF
, 2010-08-13).
“Multilevel Modeling in R”
by Paul
Bliese (
PDF
2022-03-14, 83 pages), a brief introduction to R and the packages
multilevel and nlme.
“Statistics with R and S-Plus”
by Hugo
Quené (
PDF
).
“Using R for Scientific Computing”
by
Karline Soetaert
ZIP
):
lecture notes and reference card for R beginners, including
exercises.
“A (Not So) Short Introduction to S4”
by Christophe Genolini
PDF
, 2009-01-07, 68 pages).
“Creating R Packages: A Tutorial”
by Friedrich Leisch
PDF
2009-10-13, 19 pages).
“Creating R Packages, Using CRAN, R-Forge,
And Local R Archive Networks And Subversion (SVN) Repositories
by Spencer Graves and Sundar Dorai-Raj
PDF
PPT
2009-05-04, 45 slides).
“Guide to Credit Scoring in R”
by Dhruv Sharma
PDF
2009-10-13, 45 pages).
“R for Biologists”
by Marco Martinez
PDF
2010-03-19, 35 pages).
“R Commander: An Introduction ”
by Natasha Karp
PDF
2014-01-10, 52 pages).
“Matlab® / R Reference”
by David Hiebeler
PDF
2010-05-25, 52 pages).
“An introduction to data cleaning with
R”
by Edwin de Jonge and Mark van der Loo
PDF
2014-02-09, 53 pages).
“Introduction to visualising spatial data in R”
by Robin Lovelace and James Cheshire
PDF
Source
2017-03-23, 20 pages).
Short Documents and Reference Cards:
“R reference card”
by Jonathan Baron (
PDF
).
“R and Octave”
by Robin Hankin
Text
),
a reference sheet translating between the most common
Octave
(or
Matlab
) and R commands.
“time series reference card”
PDF
and a
“regression reference card”
PDF
by Vito Ricci.
“R reference card”
by Tom Short
PDF
LaTeX source
).
“R reference card data mining”
by Yanchang Zhao
PDF
2013-01-05).
“A (very) short Introduction to R”
by Paul Torfs and Claudia Brauer
PDF
2014-03-18).
“R reference card v2”
by Matt Baggott
PDF
2013-01-05).
Non-English Documents
Chinese
“R reference card”
original by Tom Short, translation by Sizhe Liu
PDF
, 2013-02-06).
“Frequently asked questions”
by
Sizhe Liu (
PDF
, 2013-02-06).
A collection of FAQs and answers from Chinese R discussion
forums.
Note that this is an independent collection, this is
not
translation of the official
R FAQs
“Statistics and R Reading Notes”
(6th Edition) by Junxiao Xu
PDF
),
including material on base R, math and statistics, experimental
design, linear regression, ANOVA, non-parametric analysis, epi,
time-series analysis, machine learning, Bayesian analysis, HMMs, and
graphs.
Croatian
“Uvod u koristenje R-a”
by Damir
Kasum and Tarzan Legovic, a translation of the manual “An
introduction to R”
PDF
).
“Osnovne naredbe u R-u”
by Damir
Kasum, a quick reference card
PDF
).
Czech
“Cvičení z biostatistiky: Základy práce se softwarem
R”
(Courses in biostatistics: Basic use of the R software) by
Pavel Drozd (
PDF
).
Danish
“Noter om R”
by Morten Larsen and Peter Sestoft
PDF
2009-03-26, 179 pages).
Farsi (Persian)
“R language manual in Farsi”
by Saeed Mousavi
PDF
2012-10-08, 179 pages).
“SNA in R Tutorial in Farsi”
by Mohsen Raeesi
PDF
2011-09-01).
“Special topics with R in Farsi”
by Saeed Mousavi
PDF
2012-09-26, 62 pages).
French
“R Commander: Petit guide pratique”
by Jean-Philippe Gaudron,
a simple guide to R Commander in French
PDF
2016-03-16, 129 pages).
“R pour les débutants”
by Emmanuel Paradis, the French version of
“R for Beginners”
PDF
).
“Introduction au système R”
by Yves Brostaux, a short introduction bundled together with data
sets used in the document
ZIP
TGZ
).
“Introduction à la programmation en R,
Cinquième édition”
by Vincent Goulet, an introduction to programming in R
PDF
2016-04-27, 218 pages).
The document comes with script files for examples sections
ZIP
),
and points to short
videos
explaining some of the more challenging topics.
“Brise Glace-R (ouvrir la voie aux pôles
statistiques)”
by Andrew Robinson and Arnaud Schloesing, the French version of
Andrew Robinson's icebreakeR introductory notes for R
PDF
).
“Introduction à R”
by Julien Barnier, a simple introduction especially for people with
no programming background
PDF
2013-09-13, 129 pages).
“Aide mémoire R”
by Mayeul Kauffmann, a reference card in French (partly translated
from Tom Short's reference card)
PDF
ODT
).
Four documents by Christophe Genolini:
“Petit Manuel de S4”
a French extended version of
“A (not So) Short Introduction to S4”
PDF
2009-09-09).
“Lire ; Compter ; Tester... avec R”
reading data, univariate analysis and testing, for people who do
not know programming
PDF
2009-09-09).
“Construire un Package”
building a package in R, either classical or S4
PDF
2009-09-09)
“R, Bonnes pratiques”
R, good practices
PDF
2009-09-09)
“Aide-mémoire de statistique appliquée à la biologie”
by Maxime Hervé,
a collection of cards covering a variety of statistical methods used by
biologists
PDF
2016-08-22, 203 pages).
“L'Actuariat avec R”
by Arthur Charpentier and Christophe Dutang
PDF
2013-01-05).
German
“Einführung in R”
by Günther Sawitzki
PDF
),
lecture notes for a 4-5 day introductory course in programming in
the S language for students with basic knowledge in probability
theory. See also the
StatLab Heidelberg S page
for more information.
“R Reader”
by Jörg Groß & Benjamin Peters
PDF
2010-03-08).
“Angewandte Statistik für die biologischen
Wissenschaften”
by Carsten Dormann & Ingolf Kühn
PDF
2010-05-29).
Greek
“Μια (πολύ) σύντομη εισαγωγή στην R”
by Paul Torfs and Claudia Brauer
PDF
2015-11-06),
a Greek translation by George Kaffezas of “A (very) short Introduction to
R”.
“Lecture Notes for Introduction to R”
by Konstantinos Fokianos and Charalambos Charalambous
PDF
),
a semester course notes for introductory statistical theory and
computations by R.
“Statistical Analysis with R”
by Anastasios Katsileros
PDF
),
data analysis of agronomic experiments for Greek speaking R users.
Hungarian
“R<-...erre, erre...! (Bevezetés az
R-nyelv és környzet
használatába)”
by Norbert Solymosi
PDF
).
Italian
“Il linguaggio R: concetti introduttivi ed
esempi”
(II edizione)
by Vito M. R. Muggeo and Giancarlo Ferrara
PDF
).
“Una guida all'utilizzo dell'ambiente statistico
R”
by Angelo M. Mineo, an introductory guide,
based mainly on “An introduction to R”.
PDF
LaTeX
source
).
“Analisi delle serie storiche con R”
by Vito Ricci
PDF
).
“Rappresentazione analitica delle distribuzioni
statistiche con R”
by Vito Ricci
PDF
).
“Matematica e grafica elementari con R”
by Josef Eschgfäller
PDF
).
“Formulario di Statistica con R”
by Fabio Frascati (
PDF
, 2008-10-17).
“Programmazione in R”
by Josef Eschgfäller, an introduction to R as a programming
language (
PDF
).
“Principali tecniche di regressione con R”
by Vito Ricci
PDF
).
“Creare packages per R sotto Windows XP”
by Fabio Frascati
PDF
).
“Esercitazioni di statistica biomedica”
(Alcune note su R) by Matteo Dell'Omodarme
PDF
, 2012-09-24).
“Analisi econometrica delle serie
storiche con R”
by Sergio Salvino Guirreri
PDF
, 2008-07-03).
Japanese
Japanese translations of R manuals and help pages by Shigeru Mase:
An Introduction to R
PDF, PS
The R language definition
PDF, PS
Writing R Extensions
PDF, PS
R Data Import/Export
PDF, PS
R Installation and Administration
PDF, PS
R Statistical Function Help Pages
PDF
, 404 pages, 2009-06-05)
Polish
“Analiza i prognozowanie szeregow czasowych.
Praktyczne wprowadzenie na podstawie srodowiska R”
by Adam Zagdanski and Artur Suchwalko
PDF
2015-12-12).
This is a part of a
book about time
series analysis and forecasting with R
“Wprowadzenie do srodowiska R”
by Lukasz Komsta
PDF
gzipped
Postscript
).
“Przewodnik po pakiecie R”
by Przemyslaw Biecek
PDF
2008-08-22). This is the first part of
book about R
“Statystyczna analiza danych z wykorzystaniem programu
R”
by Marek Walesiak and Eugeniusz Gatnar (Eds.)
PDF
ZIP
).
“Podstawy statystyki z przykladami w R”
by Tomasz Gorecki
PDF
).
“Analiza danych jakosciowych i symbolicznych z
wykorzystaniem programu R”
by Eugeniusz Gatnar and Marek Walesiak (Eds.)
PDF
ZIP
2012-11-01).
“Uogólniona miara odległosci GDM w statystycznej analizie
wielowymiarowej z wykorzystaniem programu”
by Marek Walesiak
PDF
ZIP
2012-11-01).
“Wprowadzenie do R”
by Artur Suchwalko, Agnieszka Suchwalko, and Adam Zagdanski
PDF
, 2012-07-11).
“Wprowadzenie do R dla programistow innych jezykow”
by Artur Suchwalko
PDF
, 2014-03-04).
Portuguese
“Bioestatística usando R”
by Colin Robert Beasley
PDF
Data
).
“Introdução à Biometria
utilizando R”
by Leandro R. Monteiro and José Louvise Gomes-Jr
PDF
Data
).
“Introdução à Programação
em R”
by Luis Torgo
PDF
).
“Tóppicos de Estatística utilizando R”
by Fernando Itano (
PDF
, 2007-08-21).
“Guia de instalação do R”
by Fernando Itano (
PDF
, 2007-08-21).
“Estatística aplicada à ecologia usando o R”
by Diogo Borges Provete
PDF
Materials
2011-08-08).
“Introdução ao uso do programa R”
by Victor Lemes Landeiro
PDF
Materials
2011-08-25).
Romanian
“R pentru Incepatori”
, the Romanian version of “R for Beginners” by Emmanuel
Paradis, translated by Ana-Maria Dobre
PDF
, 2013-08-10)
Russian
“Nagljadnaja statistika. Ispoljzuem R!”
by A. B. Shipunov, E. M. Baldin, P. A. Volkova, A. I. Korobejnikov,
S. A. Nazarova, S. V. Petrov and V. G. Sufijanov
PDF
, 2016-06-06, 296
pages).
This is a slightly improved variant of the same-named
book published in 2012
All book materials are accessible from
Alexey Shipunov's Russian R page
Slovak
“Základy pravdepodobnosti a matematickej štatistiky”
(“Fundamentals of Probability and Mathematical
Statistics”)
by Tomas Bacigal
PDF
2010-05-17)
Spanish
“R para Principiantes”
, the Spanish
version of “R for Beginners”, translated by Jorge
A. Ahumada
PDF
).
A Spanish translation of
“An Introduction to
R”
by Andrés
González and Silvia González (
PDF
Texinfo
sources
).
“Gráficos Estadísticos con
R”
by Juan Carlos Correa and Nelfi González
PDF
).
“Cartas sobre Estadística de la
Revista Argentina de Bioingeniería”
by Marcelo R. Risk
PDF
).
“Introducción al uso y programación
del sistema estadístico R”
by Ramón Díaz-Uriarte, transparencies prepared for a
16-hours course on R, addressed mainly to biologists and
bioinformaticians
PDF
).
“Generacion automatica de reportes con R y LaTeX”
by Mario Alfonso Morales Rivera
PDF
).
“Metodos Estadisticos con R y R Commander”
by Antonio Jose Saez Castillo
PDF
ZIP
2010-07-08).
“Optimización Matemática con R: Volumen I”
by Enrique Gabriel Baquela and Andrés Redchuk
PDF
161 pages).
“Introducción al uso de R y R Commander para el análisis
estadístico de datos en ciencias sociales”
by Rosario Collatón Chicana
PDF
128 pages,
2014-05-11).
“El arte de programar en R”
by Julio Sergio Santana and Efraín Mateos Farfán
PDF
197 pages,
2014-12-15;
online
).
Ukrainian
“An introduction to R on examples”
by Viktor Hnatyuk
PDF
, 2011-09-14).
Vietnamese
“Phân tích sô liêu và
biêu dô băng”
(“A Short Guide to Data Analysis and Graphics Using R”)
by Nguyên Văn Tuân
PDF
).
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