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François edited this page Sep 2, 2013 · 20 revisions

Welcome to the IDA wiki. Here're some outdated notes:

  • Outline of the course, with too many details
  • Packages and functions used in the course

Below are a few links and resources that did not make it to the course reading list but are still worth a look. You can find even more stuff in my stats:R bookmarks, or by browsing the #rstats hashtag on Twitter.

Handbooks

More handbooks:

  • Dalgaard, Introductory Statistics with R, 2002
  • Verzani, Using R for Introductory Statistics, 2005 (also: simpleR, 2002)
  • Zuur et al, A Beginner's Guide to R, 2009

More advanced:

  • Cornillon, Matzner-Lober, Régression avec R, 2011 (French primer to regression)
  • Maindonald, Braun, Data Analysis and Graphics Using R – An Example-Based Approach, 3rd ed, 2003
  • Matloff, The Art of R Programming, 2011 (functional programming)

A few books on visualization:

  • Cairo, The Functional Art, 2012
  • Steele and Iliinsky, Designing Data Visualizations, 2011
  • Yau, Visualize This, 2011

Visualization with R:

  • Murrell, R Graphics, 2006
  • Wickham, ggplot2, 2009

More advanced:

  • Munzner, Visualization Design and Analysis, 2012
  • Tufte, VDQI, 2001 (authoritative reference)

Tutorials

Cheat sheets

And my favourite teaching function: SnowsPenultimateNormalityTest

Blogs

The course cites many R blog posts. The main source for them is R-bloggers, with a few more from Stats Blogs.

Some of my favourite R blogs:

Some more with no recent updates but interesting examples:

Some content also gets discussed at Stack Overflow, a Q & A online community with an impressively knowledgeable base of R users (see also Cross Validated for online discussion on statistics).

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