How to get help

Now you have a flavour of what R can do for you. However, there will be many things that this tutorial hasn't and won't cover. R has a great community and excellent documentation is part of that. Have a quick look at at few of these sources before you move on to see some fancy graphing with the ggplot2 package.

Useful links

• Help function (?command or help(command))
• Vignettes & Demos
  • Try the commands demo() and vignette() to get lists of those available
• Google
• Stack Overflow
• R Studio Cheatsheets
• search.r-project.org
• R Bloggers
• R Seek

Tutorials

• NIH - Introduction to R for Non-programmers
• Software Carpentry
• Jim Tyson - First course in R
• Altaf Ali - Data Visualization in R with ggplot2
• Harvard University - Introduction to R Graphics with ggplot2
• Tutorials Point

Books

• "R for Data Science", Garrett Grolemund & Hadley Wickham, http://r4ds.had.co.nz/) physical copy on Amazon
• "Learning R: A Step-by-Step Function Guide to Data Analysis", Richard Cotton, Amazon
• "R in a Nutshell: A Desktop Quick Reference (In a Nutshell)", Joseph Adler, Amazon