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This carefully curated collection of resources will help you find packages and learning resources to help you on your R journey.

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readxl

The readxl package makes it easy to get data out of Excel and into R. It supports both the legacy .xls format and the modern xml-based .xlsx format, and can read data from specific worksheets or cell ranges.

Rebecca Barter - Learn to purrr

Learn about the purrr package in R, which provides map functions for iteration and manipulating lists.

Recreate a real-world, complex dataviz with R & ggplot - YouTube

Recreate a real-world, complex dataviz with R & ggplot - YouTube

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RegExplain

🕵️‍♂️ RegExplain is an RStudio addin and utility belt for regular expressions. It allows users to interactively build and test regular expressions, check the output of string matching functions, and consult help pages and resources.

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Rendering your README with GitHub Actions

This tutorial explains how to use GitHub Actions to automatically render your README.Rmd file to README.md on GitHub.

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RMarkdown

The rmarkdown package helps you create dynamic analysis documents that combine code, rendered output (such as figures), and prose. It allows you to do data science interactively within the RStudio IDE, reproduce your analyses, collaborate and share code with others, and communicate your results with others. R Markdown documents can be rendered to many output formats including HTML documents, PDFs, Word files, slideshows, and more.

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RMarkdown for Scientists

A book about using R Markdown for scientists.

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RMarkdown Tutorials

R Markdown provides an authoring framework for data science. It allows users to save and execute code, generate high-quality reports, and share them with an audience. R Markdown documents are fully reproducible and support various static and dynamic output formats. The R Markdown package is free and open source and can be installed from CRAN. The R Markdown website provides comprehensive documentation and resources for getting started with R Markdown.

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RSQLite

SQLite Interface for R • RSQLite

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RStudio Cloud Primer: Functions

Posit Cloud is a cloud-based platform for managing and analyzing data in the financial services industry.

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RStudio Cloud Primer: Iterate

Posit Cloud is a cloud platform that provides storage and computing resources for businesses and developers in order to store, process, and analyze large amounts of data.