R Reference and Training Resources

General

• Google is a big fan of R and has provided an R specific search engine called Rseek. Search from this site for the term "R tutorial" is very productive.


• PLoS Computational Biology Education paper on Teaching R Programming to Computational Biology Students


• The R wiki has many great resources including the "Getting Started" site


• Contributed documentation page


• An Introduction to R and course notes


• Peter Dalgaard's text: Introductory Statistics with R

Biology Focused

• Statistics and Bioinformatics

  • Statistics Using R with Biological Examples
  
  
  • Applied Statistics for Bioinformatics Using R
  
  
  • A brief introduction to R for the Deonier, Tavare, and Waterman text: Computational Analysis of the Genome, which has data and R scripts for the examples in the text here



• Dynamic Simulation and Numerical Computing

  • A brief introduction to R for the Elnner and Gluckenheimer text: Dynamic Models in Biology, which has R scripts for the examples in the text here
  
  
  • Using R for scientific computing
  
  
  • Computer Simulation and Data Analysis in Molecular Biology and Biophysics
  
  
  • Ecology and epidemiology in the R programming environment
  
  
  • Darren Wilkinson's text: Stochastic Modelling for Systems Biology has supplemental materials, including SBML models, an R Intro, and R scripts, available here
  
  



• Other High-Level Mathematical Languages

  • R and Octave
  
  
  • Matlab/R Reference