A collection of R Tips'n Tricks
What is R
R is a free software environment for statistical computing and graphics. It is used in academia and industry, in many different fields, from (obviously) statistics, finance, high-thoughput biology (omics), … and can be expanded at infinity through package (CRAN, Bioconductor, R-Forge, omegahat).
Documentation
The are vast amounts of documentation about R: - the R manuals page edited by the R Development Core Team - each function has it own manual page and some packages come with a global overview in the form of a vignette - many free documents and tutorials freely available - lots of general or specialised books - several mailing lists and dedicated QA sites - … - … - and this little collection of tips and tricks that I found useful to collect.
To best use this site, feel free to browser the archive or select a catergory or tags of interest.
Before tipsntRicks
Before setting up to repository, the content was available on slashhome.be. The publication date is when the content was moved here; some posts are much older and possibly a bit outdated.
Sample Posts
Here’s a sample of my R posts:
- 06 Sep 2012 » Visually weighted plots
- 22 Jun 2012 » quantile scatterplot
- 04 Jun 2012 » tableplot
- 04 Jun 2012 » scatterhist
- 04 Jun 2012 » emails in R
- 15 May 2012 » Strings as variable names
- 14 May 2012 » Inspecting packages
- 13 May 2012 » Testing your code
- 13 May 2012 » Removing affy probes
- 13 May 2012 » Object oriented programming
- 13 May 2012 » Manage your code
- 13 May 2012 » Debugging
- 13 May 2012 » Cross Talk
- 13 May 2012 » About limma
- 12 May 2012 » A bit of HistoRy