Documentation

Document Collections, Journals and Proceedings

In addition to the manuals, FAQs, the R Journal and its predecessor R News, the following sites may be of interest to R users:

• Browsable HTML versions of the manuals, help pages and NEWS for the developing versions of R “R-patched” and “R-devel”, updated daily.
• CRAN has a growing list of contributed documentation in a variety of languages.
• A list of books and other publications related to R.
• The Journal of Statistical Software features R-related articles like package guides on a regular basis.
• Proceedings from the International Workshops on Distributed Statistical Computing.

Smaller Collections and Single Documents

R guides and documentation not contained in the contributed documentation section of CRAN:

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

Non-English Material

Chinese

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

German

Currently none are freely available.

Russian

• A set of R documentation in Russian by Alexey Shipunov. The list of documents is also available in English.

Disclaimer: Most of the documents listed on this page are provided by users of R. The R core team does not take any responsibility for contents (except when explicitly named as author), but we appreciate every effort to create R-related documentation very much and encourage everybody to contribute to this list!