R Resources Books

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# R Books

Essential R programming books.

## Free Online Books

### Beginner
- **R for Data Science (2e)** - https://r4ds.hadley.nz/
  - Tidyverse workflow, data wrangling, visualization
- **Hands-On Programming with R** - https://rstudio-education.github.io/hopr/
  - R basics, functions, objects

### Intermediate
- **Advanced R (2e)** - https://adv-r.hadley.nz/
  - Functional programming, OOP, metaprogramming
- **R Packages (2e)** - https://r-pkgs.org/
  - Package development with devtools

### Visualization
- **ggplot2: Elegant Graphics** - https://ggplot2-book.org/
  - Grammar of graphics, customization
- **R Graphics Cookbook (2e)** - https://r-graphics.org/
  - Practical recipes for plots

### Statistics
- **Statistical Inference via Data Science** - https://moderndive.com/
  - Modern approach to stats with tidyverse
- **Introduction to Statistical Learning** - https://www.statlearning.com/
  - Machine learning fundamentals

### Specialized
- **Geocomputation with R** - https://r.geocompx.org/
  - Spatial data analysis
- **Text Mining with R** - https://www.tidytextmining.com/
  - NLP with tidytext
- **Mastering Shiny** - https://mastering-shiny.org/
  - Interactive web apps
- **Efficient R Programming** - https://csgillespie.github.io/efficientR/
  - Performance optimization

## Reference Cards

- **RStudio Cheatsheets** - https://posit.co/resources/cheatsheets/
  - dplyr, ggplot2, tidyr, purrr, stringr, etc.
- **Base R Cheatsheet** - https://iqss.github.io/dss-workshops/R/Rintro/base-r-cheat-sheet.pdf