The NCEAS R Programming Resource Center

These pages present technical documentation selected by the NCEAS Scientific Computing staff for use by NCEAS associates learning and using The R Programming Language in their research activities.

The current page contains links to tutorials covering R Language essentials and recommended by NCEAS Scientific Computing personnel.

*** New ***An excellent set of R programming and analysis tutorials R Ecology and Epidemiology produced by the American Phytopathology Society (APS). Five chapters containing in-depth examples of widely used statistical and spatial analysis methods implemented using R.

The R Spatial Data Processing Workshop (February 2009) This page contains links to lecture notes and R scripts that demonstrate common spatial analysis tasks

The R Language Short Course page contains links to course materials from an introductory R programming seminar presented at NCEAS in Spring, 2005

The R Language Special Topics page contains links to reports describing specific R Language add-on packages and advanced geospatial and geostatistical analysis methods that incorporate the R Language.

Scientific Computing Services encourages contributions to this page. Please send your suggestions: email Scientific Computing Services

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Comprehensive R Archive Network (CRAN) Documentation Portals:

The R Contributed Packages page contains a comprehensive list of available packages, with links to the 'home page' for each available package.

To search for and access R package user manuals, click here.

The R FAQ page contains links to Frequently Asked Question and HOWTO lists.

The Rseek.org search portal is a great starting point for your R technique / package / resource search.

Tutorials and introductory materials:

The major features of the R language, in a 4-page desktop reference format

The basics of the R session: command lines, R objects, and simple statistical and graphics operations.

A comprehensive Introduction to all aspects of the R programming environment, derived from the development team's notes. Strongly Recommended.

An in-depth R introduction designed for life scientists. A good starting point, strong on R concepts.

Many good R scripting and data handling techniques, gathered from the RHelp list

Concise summary of useful R functions compiled by a former NCEAS Postoc and R 'Power User'

R Documentation: Software Installation, Package Development, Systems Administration, and Data Management

A guide to installation and administration for R.

A guide to importing and exporting data to an from the R programming environment.

Techniques for extending R: Creating R add-on packages, writing R documentation, R external interfaces.

The internal structures of the R programming environment: information for programmers working on R language core.

A formal introduction to the R language: syntax parsing, evaluation, object-oriented programming, and other topics

R Reference Manuals - NOTE: These are LARGE PDF files - 'Download With Care'


R Special Application ('Add-On' ) Package Documentation Download Center

Select (single-click) an R package title from this list: View / download the latest PDF-format user manual for that package.