R Resources

Interested in resources to help you get started coding in R? Below are some great places to start ⬇️

  1. Free Book: R for Data Science by Hadley Wickham & Garrett Grolemund

This book gives you an introduction to the word of tidyverse, provides examples on how to build a ggplot visualization, how to wrangle data, build models, and more.

  1. learnr

This resource is an interactive way to get hands on practice with R code by providing code exercies and supplemental videos as well.

  1. Geocomputation with R by Robin Lovelace, Jakub Nowosad, Jannes Muenchow

This book provides an introduction to widley used geospatial packages in R such as sf and terra. Here they cover material on geospatial operations, coordinate reference systems (CRSs), making maps in R, and more.

  1. Cheatsheets!

Sometimes you just need a quick look to find what function you’re looking to apply. The link above includes cheatsheets for packages such as dplyr, ggplot, stringr and more.

  1. Quarto

Quarto is an open-source scientific and technical publishing system built on Pandoc and can be a great tool for creating high-quality articles, reports, presentations, websites, blogs, and books in HTML, PDF, MS Word, ePub, and more. I recommend checking out Tom Moc’s “Welcome to Quarto Workshop” as a place to start. Mine Çetinkaya-Rundel & Julia Stewart Lowndes’s presentation “Hello Quarto” is another great resource.

Community’s of practice

Below are some resources that are great for asking questions, getting connected, and building a network of diverse R users!

  1. R-Ladies

R-Ladies is a worldwide organization whose mission is to promote gender diversity in the R community. It’s likely that your community already has a group for you to get connected with. Here are some to name a few: @RLadiesSB, @RLadiesSF, @RLadiesNYC, @RLadiesParis.

  1. R User Groups

Many of these groups below have public slack groups for folks to join and ask code questions, network, and even hear about job postings.