R Programming

Getting Started

Some notes on the R Language
A Data Frame is Also a List
S Objects, R Objects, and Lexical Scoping
Common R Mistakes: Overwriting Functions with Data Objects
Forms of the Extract Operator
Functions to Sort Data Frames
Creative Use of R: Downloading Course Lectures Article illustrating how to use R to automate the download of lectures from Data Science Specialization courses, such as R Programming. Techniques used in this article are helpful to make research reproducible, as required for courses like Getting and Cleaning Data and Reproducible Research.
Lexical Scoping and Statistical Computing Article by Robert Gentleman and Ross Ihaka at the University of Auckland describing how lexical scoping works, and why it is valuable in statistical computing.
Data Science Job Report 2017: R Passes SAS, But Python Leaves Them Both Behind Bob Muenchen’s take on the job market for various data science langauges.