R code learning online - Menu for getting into R, and added treats

Please let us know of any software allergens, and we will do our best to help guide you in your selection
Ryan Lab Standard is R Studio
​Ryan Lab Technical is R Studio with GitHub sessions - Philipp is our resident overtech at present

Brunch - because breakfast is too early

SWIRLY
​If you're looking to get started in R immediately, download R and R Studio, then you might want to take a look at the swirl package for R. With swirl, you can learn R while in the R console. http://swirlstats.com/
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R for Fledglings
A wonderful new R resource produced at the Vermont Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit is now available: https://www.uvm.edu/rsenr/vtcfwru/R/?Page=fledglings/fledglings.htm

‘R for Fledglings’ is an exceptionally user-friendly, freely available online book. It is a great resource for beginners and more experienced R
users alike. The chapters are progressive for beginners, but can serve as stand-alone features for more advanced users.

The content ranges from the basics of data entry/organization/analysis and plotting to more advanced topics like writing functions, generating Markdown reports, developing packages, and running simulations.

"As someone who has used R for years in the context of ecological analyses, this book opened up a whole new set of capacities for me. I found this book to be extremely useful as a tool, both for developing more advanced tasks and refining the clumsier approaches I had accrued over time." - Steve on Ecolog-L

Lunch

​COURSERA
Courses for R can be found for free at Coursera.org.

Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health has developed a data science specialization through Coursera. For a certificate, there is about a $500 fee. The courses themselves, and a completion certificate, however are free.  
Here's the link to the specialization: https://www.coursera.org/specializations/jhudatascience/1
 
Tyler's review: Unfortunately, the courses in the data science specialization are VERY fast-paced. However, they start at the beginning of each month, so if you fall behind you can pick back up the next month.
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​SPSS to R conversion - Tyler James Special
I am personally trying to switch to R from SPSS, so I found a really cool book. It is normally $70, but I found a PDF for free: https://science.nature.nps.gov/im/datamgmt/statistics/R/documents/R_for_SAS_SPSS_users.pdf.