What are some good books, web resources, and projects for learning R? [closed]

Answer 1

I found the The R Inferno by Patrick Burns very helpful to get to know R

From The R Inferno:

Abstract: If you are using R and you think you’re in hell, this is a map for you.

http://lib.stat.cmu.edu/S/Spoetry/Tutor/R_inferno.pdf

Answer 2

My favorite R book is R Programming for Bioinformatics, by Robert Gentlemen. It doesn't try to teach you statistics at the same time as you learn the language, but rather presents the language from a programmer's viewpoint. I thought the book gave much better background than any of the online resources did. This is from the perspective of a biologist/programmer who didn't know much statistics when first learning R.

Answer 3

The Comprehensive R Archive Network seems promising. Here's an R book list that is two links away. Maybe some S-plus information also generalizes to R as well.

Answer 4

This is essentially a dump of my bookmarks, and what I have on my desk.

Getting started:

1. A tutorial video on R
2. John Cook's introduction to R for programmers
3. R reference card
4. Interactive tutorial: Introduction to R

Advanced:

1. The R-Gallery
2. The R Wiki
3. Quick-R on advanced statistics

Books:

1. The R Book (Covers the basics, classical statisitical tests, basic statistical modeling (ANOVA, ANCOVA, GLM, non-linear models, etc.), advanced statistical modeling (tree models, time-series analysis, spatial statistics, survival analysis, simulation), and twiddling with the graphics output.
2. R Graphics (How to make R graphics look sharp)

Answer 5

Here is a blog post Brendan O'Connor just wrote today that has some tips for learning R. Love it and hate it, R has come of age

Also, I second Jason's recommendation of "The R Book." It's expensive, but it's cheaper than buying several other books and being disappointed in them all.