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Useful links

Here we provide some additional links

CRAN’s Introduction to R book

https://cran.r-project.org/doc/manuals/r-release/R-intro.pdf

SIB’s First steps with R in Life Sciences - 2-day course

https://github.com/sib-swiss/first-steps-with-R-training/tree/master

It includes more on statistics on the second day.

SIB’s Introduction to Statistics with R - 3/4-day course

The SIB course Introduction to statistics with R is designed for R beginners and introduces hypothesis testing, multiple testing correction, linear models, correlation and regression, and principal component analysis.

Find the R code on the course website

https://sib-swiss.github.io/Introduction-to-statistics-with-R/

Introduction to R for Cancer Scientists

For R beginners:

https://bioinformatics-core-shared-training.github.io/r-intro/index.html

Some tutorials to learn or practice R

https://support.posit.co/hc/en-us/articles/200552336-Getting-Help-with-R

https://r-coder.com/learn-r/

R for Data Science Book

Book (2nd edition) by Hadley Wickham (a very active R developer), Mine Çetinkaya-Rundel and Garrett Grolemund. The book makes heavy use of the tidyverse, which is a collection of R packages designed for data science. All packages share an underlying design philosophy, grammar, and data structures. ggplot2 is part of the tidyverse packages.

https://r4ds.hadley.nz/

ggplot2 tutorial

https://ggplot2.tidyverse.org/

You can also have a look at ggplot2’s vignette.

The R Graphics Cookbook includes code to create graphs with both the base graphics package as well as ggplot2.

Finally, this cheatsheet is also useful and gives a nice overview !

https://rstudio.github.io/cheatsheets/data-visualization.pdf

R-charts

A site that has been created to be a reference for learning how to create charts in R as well as a place to look for inspiration. Code examples to create plots with base R, ggplot2. Color charts with R color name vs HEX equivalent.

https://r-charts.com/

R colors

A nice PDF file with R color names by Dr Ying Wei

http://www.stat.columbia.edu/~tzheng/files/Rcolor.pdf

Another nice PDF file with information about R colors

https://www.nceas.ucsb.edu/sites/default/files/2020-04/colorPaletteCheatsheet.pdf

R Markdown

A useful resource is RStudio’s R Markdown tutorial.

For tweaking your reports, such as chosing different output formats, or hiding or showing the code within the report, we recommend that you consult the R markdown documentation provided in this Definite guide eBook.

Cheatsheets

Several cheatsheets available for different packages, eg R Markdown, ggplot2, RStudio,…