Learning R

There are literally countless resources available to learn R -- blogs, online tutorials, Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs), platforms, and books. For somebody new to the field of Data Science, it is thus hard to identify really great resources. While everybody has a different way of acquiring new knowledge, I believe that the following books are particularly useful, especially for beginners. This book is co-authored by Hadley Wickham who is best known for the hugely popular R package ggplot2. This book provides a well-written overview of how to import, tidy, transform and model data in R. The book is also available free of charge as an online version. It includes many exercises after each section which makes the book particularly interesting for beginners.