Helpful Links and Refs for R, RStudio, Git & Github

R

See YouTube Video for Installing R, RStudio and Rmarkdown at https://youtu.be/MsV5dJ2reQ4

• Download R from https://cran.r-project.org/
• Download RStudio Desktop from https://www.rstudio.com/products/rstudio/download/

Learning R

• RStudio Education
• Data Camp
  • DataCamp is another great place to start learning online. You need to create an account to get started. There are many FREE courses available on R.
• UCLA Institute for Digital Research and Education (IDRE)
  • The IDRE by UCLA is an excellent source for help with many statistical software pages and analyses including R.
• SWIRL
  • swirl is actually an R package you install from within R. swirl teaches you R programming and data science interactively, at your own pace, and right in the R console!
• Quick-R
  • This is an excellent site for quick help and resources for using R and statistical analyses in general. The site is owned and maintained by Rob Kabacoff, who also authored the very good book “R in Action”.
• R Tutorial - Kelly Black at UGA

Getting Help with R

The websites listed below all provide information on how to get help in R.

• Quick-R Help
• “How to ask for R help” blog post
• R-help mailing list
• R Section of StackOverflow

RStudio

On the main RStudio website https://www.rstudio.com/products/rstudio/ there is a short overview video. But also check out:

• Feature overview https://www.rstudio.com/products/rstudio/features/
• Online learning for R, Rmarkdown, RStudio and more RStudio Education
• Webinars https://www.rstudio.com/resources/webinars/
• lots of helpful cheatsheets https://www.rstudio.com/resources/cheatsheets/

Rmarkdown reports

• RMarkdown
• Knitr examples
• Karl Broman’s website Knitr in a Knutshell tutorial

Github

• Set up your own account at Gtithub https://github.com/
• Learn more at https://guides.github.com/activities/hello-world/
• Jenny Bryan has a fantastic online book “Happy Git and Github for the useR” about using Git and Github with R and RStudio at http://happygitwithr.com/ - I HIGHLY reccommend looking through this book.

Git

• Learn about downloading and installing Git at http://happygitwithr.com/install-git.html
• Git for Windows https://git-for-windows.github.io/
• Git for Mac - in addition to Jenny Bryan’s instructions at http://happygitwithr.com/install-git.html#mac-os, you can also check out https://git-scm.com/downloads
• We will mainly use Git with the RStudio IDE to minimize the pain, but you can learn more about the Git commands at TryGit https://try.github.io/

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