R documentation and Learning Resources

R! documentation and Learning Resources

• Blog: R commands and keyboard shortcuts
• Blog: R! Books
• Rdocumentation of Datacamp is a tool that helps you easily find and browse the documentation of all current and some past packages on CRAN.
• CRAN Task View organizes the packages into different groups such as Graphics, Survival Analysis, etc.
• R_note -- The Exploration of Statistical Software R
• R! Tips
• Resources of learning R, UCLA
• Quick-R is to help you quickly access this language in your work
• William N Venables, David M Smith, and the R Core Team. An Introduction to R (on-going updated)
• Daniel Navarro (2015). Learning Statistics with R
• Sharon Machlis (2013).Beginner's guide to R: Introduction (pdf), and (2016) Advanced Beginner's Guide to R (pdf). 60+ R resources to improve your data skills
• Emmanuel Paradis. R for Beginners
• Paul Johnson (2014). R Tips
• ZevRoss. Beautiful plotting in R: A ggplot2 Cheatsheet (pdf)
• Alboukadel Kassambara. ggplot2: Guide to Create Beautiful Graphics in R
• Jay Kerns (2010). Introduction to Probability and Statistics Using R
• Julian Faraway (2002) Practical Regression and Anova using R
• Benjamin Yakir (2011). Introduction to Statistical Thinking (With R, Without Calculus)
• Paul Helwson (2009). Multivariate Statistics with R
• Hadley Wickham. ggplot2 documents (Plotly ggplot2 docs with Plotly's open-source ggplotly converter)
• RStudio. Cheat Sheets, Webinars and Video
• Norman Matloff (2009). The Art of R Programming
• Gillespie (2016). Efficient R Programming
• Scherer: A ggplot2 tutorial for beautiful plotting in R
• Thomas Lumley (2011). Course Notes - Complex sampling and R use survey package. withReplicates {survey} computes variances by replicate weighting.
• Anthony Damico:  analyze survey data for free, unlocked public-use data sets, twotorials
• Aedin Culhane: Introduction to R, CDC, June 25-28th 2012 (it's one of my favorite training courses attended). Here is a Amazon list of R TextBooks by Aedin.
• Yiling Cheng (2016). Doing Basic Calculus using R! etc.
• Verzani (2002). simpleR - Using R for Introductory Statistics (pdf)
• Patrick Burns (1998). S Poetry
• Zhou (2010). Fun with the R Grid Package
• Torre-Reyna: R: A language and Environment for statistical computing (Full manual)
• Getting started in R~Stata notes on exploring data (pdf)
• Muenchen: R for SAS and SPSS Users (pdf). the list of SAS equivalent packages.
• Maindonald: Using R for Data Analysis and Graphics (pdf)
• Data Analysts Captivated by R’s Power from the New York Times.
• Kadane. Principles of Uncertainty (pdf)
• Kerns. Introduction to Probability and Statistics Using R (pdf)
• Gaston. Handling and Processing Strings in R
• Frank Harrell. Regression Modeling Strategies and the rms Package
• Effective Graphs with Microsoft R Open
• Roger Peng and Jeff Leek. Git and GitHub videos for beginners
• Roger Peng etc. Course materials of Data Science Specialization
• Kevin Markham (2014) Hands-on dplyr tutorial for faster data manipulation in R
• Hopper (2016).The Excel User's introduction to R!
• Rickert. Getting Started with Markov Chains
• Wikibook. R programming
• Walker (2014). International population pyramids with ggplot2
• Demos: A Language, not a Letter: Learning Statistics in R

Running and longevity

Running and Longevity

News

• DialyMail: Stop that binge jogging
• Long term study found slow joggers had the lowest rates of death
• Strenuous joggers were as likely to die as sedentary non-joggers
• Going jogging three times a week for no more than 2.4 hours is optimal
• Pace of the slow joggers corresponds to vigorous exercise and strenuous jogging corresponds to very vigorous exercise, researchers qualified
• ScienceDaily: Light jogging may be most optimal for longevity

Guidelines and Researches

• CDC: How much physical activity do you need?
• Schnohr (2015). Dose of Jogging and Long-Term Mortality: the Copenhagen City Heart Study.
• Mittlema (1993). Triggering of Acute Myocardial Infarction by Heavy Physical Exertion
• Cheng (2000): Physical activity and self-reported, physician-diagnosed osteoarthritis: is physical activity a risk factor?
• Cheng (2012): Prevalence of diagnosed arthritis and arthritis-attributable activity limitation among adults with and without diagnosed diabetes