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In addition to the
manuals
FAQs
, the
R Journal
and its predecessor
R News
, the
following sites may be of interest to R users:
Browsable HTML versions of the
manuals, help pages and NEWS
for the developing versions of R “
R-patched
” and
R-devel
”, updated daily.
CRAN has a growing list of
contributed
documentation
in a variety of languages.
A list of
books
and
other publications
related to R.
The
Journal of Statistical
Software
features R-related articles like package guides on a
regular basis.
Proceedings from the International Workshops on
Distributed
Statistical Computing
Smaller Collections
and Single Documents
R guides and documentation not contained in the
contributed
documentation
section of CRAN:
Sigal Blay maintains a web page with
“Technical Notes on the R Programming
Language”
Wei-Chen Chen maintains a web page with notes on
“The Exploration of Statistic
Software R”
David Rossiter maintains a web page with several
(geo-)statistics
tutorials using R
David Hiebeler maintains a tutorial
“Matlab/R
Reference”
in PDF with some Matlab functions.
K. A. Garrett et al have written several papers on
“Ecology
and epidemiology in the R programming environment”
published as part
of the
The Plant Health Instructor
(URL change on 2011-02-01).
Benjamin Yakir has written a book named
“Introduction
to Statistical Thinking (With R, Without Calculus)”
. Both the PDF
document and data sets are available from the webpage.
Avril Coghlan maintains
“A
Little Book of R for Biomedical Statistics”
“A
Little Book of R for Time Series”
“A
Little Book of R for Multivariate Analysis”
which can be browsed as HTML and downloaded as PDF.
Non-English Material
Chinese
Translations of the R
manuals
(An Introduction to R , R Data Import/Export, The R language
definition, Writing R Extensions, R Internals) and “R for Beginners” to
Chinese by Dr. Guohui Ding.
German
Currently none are freely available.
Russian
A set of
R documentation
in Russian
by Alexey Shipunov. The list of documents is also
available in
Disclaimer: Most of the documents listed on this page are provided by
users of R. The R core team does not take any responsibility for
contents (except when explicitly named as author), but we appreciate
every effort to create R-related documentation very much and encourage
everybody to contribute to this list!
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