Resources for R

These are all (at the time of writing) freely available online resources.

General

• CRAN - The Comprehensive R Archive Network
• RStudio
• StackOverflow posts tagged [R]

Tutorials

getting started

• Excel vs R: A Brief Introduction to R - why to use R for data analysis instead of spreadsheets, and how to get started, using a historical source as an example

Programming Historian lessons (a selection):

• R Basics with Tabular Data
• Basic Text Processing in R
• Data Wrangling and Management in R

more substantial

• R for Data Science - the textbook for “Tidy” R.
• Text Mining with R

focused on doing history with R

• Computational Historical Thinking With Applications in R
• Digital History Methods in R
• Correspondence Analysis for Historical Research with R
• A Short Guide to Historical Newspaper Data Using R

Data visualisation

• ggplot2 documentation
• ggplot2: elegant graphics for data analysis
• Data visualization: a practical introduction
• Fundamentals of data visualization

Statistics

• Statistics for the Humanities
• r-statistics.co
• Modern Dive: An Introduction to Statistical and Data Sciences via R
• Statistical Rethinking with brms, ggplot2 and the tidyverse
• R-Tutorial

Blogging

• blogdown package (uses Hugo)
• Building a Blog with Blogdown and GitHub

Reproducible research

• The Practice of Reproducible Research
• Sustainable Authorship in Plain Text using Pandoc and Markdown
• R for Reproducible Research

Other coding resources

• Teaching yourself to code in DH