Documentation

DocumentCollections, Journals and Proceedings

In addition to themanuals,FAQs, theR Journal and its predecessorR News, thefollowing sites may be of interest to R users:

• Browsable HTML versions of themanuals, help pages and NEWSfor the developing versions of R “R-patched” and“R-devel”, updated daily.
• CRAN has a growing list ofcontributeddocumentation in a variety of languages.
• A list ofbooks andother publications related to R.
• TheJournal of StatisticalSoftware features R-related articles like package guides on aregular basis.
• Proceedings from the International Workshops onDistributedStatistical Computing.

Smaller Collectionsand Single Documents

R guides and documentation not contained in thecontributeddocumentation section of CRAN:

• Sigal Blay maintains a web page with“Technical Notes on the R ProgrammingLanguage”.
• Wei-Chen Chen maintains a web page with notes on“The Exploration of StatisticSoftware R”.
• David Rossiter maintains a web page with several(geo-)statisticstutorials using R.
• David Hiebeler maintains a tutorial“Matlab/RReference” in PDF with some Matlab functions.
• K. A. Garrett et al have written several papers on“Ecologyand epidemiology in the R programming environment” published as partof theThe Plant Health Instructor(URL change on 2011-02-01).
• Benjamin Yakir has written a book named“Introductionto Statistical Thinking (With R, Without Calculus)”. Both the PDFdocument and data sets are available from the webpage.
• Avril Coghlan maintains
  • “ALittle Book of R for Biomedical Statistics”
  • “ALittle Book of R for Time Series”
  • “ALittle Book of R for Multivariate Analysis”
  which can be browsed as HTML and downloaded as PDF.

Non-English Material

Chinese

• Translations of the Rmanuals (An Introduction to R , R Data Import/Export, The R languagedefinition, Writing R Extensions, R Internals) and “R for Beginners” toChinese by Dr. Guohui Ding.

German

Currently none are freely available.

Russian

• A set ofR documentationin Russian by Alexey Shipunov. The list of documents is alsoavailable inEnglish.

Disclaimer: Most of the documents listed on this page are provided byusers of R. The R core team does not take any responsibility forcontents (except when explicitly named as author), but we appreciateevery effort to create R-related documentation very much and encourageeverybody to contribute to this list!