The Best Online R Textbooks | Statistics Textbooks Online |
Introduction to the R Project for Statistical Computing for use at ITC by Rossiter (PDF) | |
The R Guide by Owen (PDF) | Introduction
to
Probability and Statistics Using R by Kearns (PDF) |
simpleR – Using R for Introductory Statistics by Verzani (PDF) | Practical Regression and Anova Using R by Faraway with R examples (PDF) |
An Introduction to R by R's Core Development Team (HTML) | Introduction to Statistical Thought by Lavene (43MB) with R examples (PDF) |
An
Introduction
to
R: Software for Statistical Modelling & Computing by Kuhnert and Venables (4.5 MB zip file) MyLocalPDFCopy |
Introduction to Probability by Grinstead and Snell with Matlab examples (PDF) |
R
Graphics Textbooks |
Debugging |
R Graphics by Paul Murrell (HTML) | Put a call to browser() in the function of interest. |
Using R for
Data Analysis and Graphics Introduction, Code and Commentary by Maindonald (PDF) |
After an error message try traceback() |
Try binary search |
Web Search (only if you must) | R help functions |
Rseek.org | apropos('regexp')
# Search for loaded symbols (functions, etc.) |
help(functionname)
#
Tells how to use the function |
|
For
Hard Questions |
help.search('regexp',
agrep=F)
# Search the help system database fields |
Official R Manuals | help.search('pattern')
# Search help db using Levenshtein edit distance |
Frequently Asked Questions | library() # Shows loaded packages |
Highly annotated indexes of R packages: CRAN Task Views | library(packagename)
#
Loads
the package |
Other Contributed R Documentation | vignette('packagename')
#
Overview
of package |
ls(package:packagename)
#
Functions
in package |
|
ls()
#
Shows
currently defined local functions & variables |
|
search()
#
shows
things on the search path |
|
args(functionname)
# Shows the names of the function's arguments |