Reddit reviews A Beginner's Guide to R (Use R!)

From one R newbie to another, I have found the website Quick-R to be the most helpful. I was roped into using R on my thesis and have had to learn everything as I go, so I don't have the background that a lot of other R users do. That said, it's nice to have a condensed, plain-english reference without all the alphabet soup of theory.

I also use A Beginner's Guide to R to figure out the basic stuff and R in Action for more advanced topics. I don't know what your statistical background is, but you should also try to find a solid stats book related to your field.

As a last bit, and this may not be a popular sentiment on this sub, but I have found very little help through the r-help files, mailing lists, or stackoverflow. Most times the posts are written by and for people with much greater ability than mine so I have a really hard time gleaning any useful information. Also, I have found that there are a lot of condescending attitudes throughout and it's soured me to those sources. In my experience, the R community at large is not very friendly towards beginners.

Good luck on your adventuRe.

R is perfect for this, for easily making graph and analyze data. [Cousera has a course on it that will start in September that I really recommend it] ( https://www.coursera.org/course/compdata). I start learned it from [this book] ( http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0387938362/). If you have some experience with Excel it help to grasp some concepts.