InfoGuides: Learn R: General Tutorials

General Tutorials

Stat 545 - Course material on Data wrangling, exploration, and analysis with R [UBC]
- Emphasizes workflow issues, including RMarkdown and Git.
- Starts with Data but also covers function writing, make, APIs and Shiny apps.
swirl - Learn R and statistics using R itself. Only a few courses, some old/wordy.
RYouWithMe - Starts at the basics and goes at a slow and steady pace (R-Ladies Sydney)
- The site has videos and text, or you can see the YouTube Channel
DataCamp - Interactive tutorials, some free like Introduction to R and the YouTube channel
- Instructors can give free access to all tutorials for their students in classs.

Data Carpentry Workshop Materials
- Starts with objects (not datasets)
Data Science for Social Scientists by Richard Landers
- Materials incorporate (and assume access to) DataCamp Courses
- Includes Video (YouTube) and lectures
- Starts with programming concepts first, including the old apply functions (often overly complicated)
R Documentation (Social Science Computing Cooperative- SSCC)
- Several book-like tutorials with follow-along examples and exercises
- Separate sections using base R and the tidyverse.
- Also covers basic regression and diagnostics.
Using R for Psychology Research by The Personality Project
- Older, still uses the apply functions and no tidyverse or afex
- Focuses on the psych package: Getting Started with R and the psych package
Exploratory Data Analysis in R (Colby College)
- From an undergraduate environmental science course (ES218)
- Starts with dplyr, and the group_by and summarize functions, which are somewhat overly complicated
- Covers graphics in base, lattice, and ggplot and other options.
- ANOVAs don't use the afex package