Resources

I have benefitted from a number of sources in my quest to tame R. Here are just a few:

BLOGS

• Dataninja – Helpful tutorials and techniques for using R and Latex.
• R Tutorials for Beginners
• R Bloggers
• Timely Portfolio – Great commentary on portfolio management, including useful R code analyzing stock and bond market time series.

BOOKS

• Applied Econometrics with R by Kleiber and Zeileis
• A Guide to Modern Eonometrics by Marno Verbeek (John Wiley & Sons, Third Edition, 2008)

COMMUNITIES

• Stack Overflow – A dedicated bunch of extremely smart and helpful programmers.
• LinkedIn Group: The [R] Project for statistical computing – An active professional group of R users who share tutorials, updates, and pertinent information on the evolution of R.

OTHER

• R Code for SAS Lab – Dr. Anton Bekkerman’s SAS guide re-written in R language.  (Dr. Bekkerman’s SAS guide is available here)
• Econometrics in R by Grant V. Farnsworth