R Documentation

Document Collections, Journals and Proceedings

In addition to the manuals, FAQs, and R News the following sites may be of interest to R users:

Browsable HTML versions of the manuals, help pages and NEWS for the developing versions of R “R-patched” and “R-devel”, updated daily.
CRAN has a growing list of contributed documentation in a variety of languages.
A list of books and other publications related to R.
The Journal of Statistical Software features R-related articles like package guides on a regular basis.
Proceedings from the International Workshops on Distributed Statistical Computing.
DevCheatSheet has a collection of R Reference Cards.

Smaller Collections and Single Documents

R guides and documentation not contained in the contributed documentation section of CRAN:

Sigal Blay maintains a web page with “Technical Notes on the R Programming Language”.
Wei-Chen Chen maintains a web page with notes on “The Exploration of Statistic Software R”.
Peter E. Rossi has written a tutorial on “Making R Packages Under Windows”, see also the associated test package zip file.
David Rossiter maintains a web page with several R applications related to natural resources management.
David Hiebeler maintains a tutorial “Matlab/R Reference” in PDF with some Matlab functions.
K. A. Garrett et al have written several papers on "Ecology and epidemiology in the R programming environment" published as part of the The Plant Health Instructor (URL change on 2011-02-01).
Benjamin Yakir has written a book named “Introduction to Statistical Thinking (With R, Without Calculus)”. Both the PDF document and data sets are available from the webpage.
Avril Coghlan maintains
which can be browsed as HTML and downloaded as PDF.

Non-English Material

Chinese

Translations of the manual “An Introduction to R” to simplified and traditional Chinese by Guohui Ding.

German

“Einführung in die Statistik mit R”, lecture notes by Andreas Handl.

Russian

A set of R documentation in Russian by Alexey Shipunov. The list of documents is also available in English.

Disclaimer: Most of the documents listed on this page are provided by users of R. The R core team does not take any responsibility for contents (except when explicitly named as author), but we appreciate every effort to create R-related documentation very much and encourage everybody to contribute to this list!