| 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 |