Demography 213 Readings

The main text book for this course is

R for Data Science by Hadley Wickham and Garret Grolemund.
Print ISBN-13: 978-1-4919-1039-9

The book is licensed for UC Berkeley students and can be accessed at http://proquest.safaribooksonline.com/book/programming/r/9781491910382/firstchapter

NOTE: To use the online (UCB licensed version) you must first visit https://guides.lib.berkeley.edu/ezproxy/browser-bookmarklet and drag the "EZproxy UCB" bookmarklet onto you browser's toolbar as described. You must also:

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Because are is Wildly popular and incredibly useful to so many smart people, and because R is open source, it is natural and inevitable that it has changed and fragmented over the years. R for Data Science provides a solid grounding in a style of R that is currently very fashionable -- as well as efficient and elegant.

Other optional readings

There are lots of R resources both free and commercial which you might find useful. Below are several that I like, a more complete list is available at:https://www.r-project.org/doc/bib/R-books.html.

Introduction to R by W.N. Venables and D.M. Smith. This is terse yet complete document. It is also free to download.
R in Action by Robert Kabacoff. This is friendlier approach to learning R. It is however, considerably more expensive than the Introduction
Getting Started with Rstudio by John Verzani. This is licensed by UCB for use by students.
R in a Nutshell, 2nd Edition . by Joseph Adler. A good overview of R for someone refreshing their skill or perhaps someone who already knows a bunch of other computer languages. NOTE the link should work if you have a UCB ip address e.g. AirBears or a Demography Lab workstation.
R Graphics Cookbook . by Winston Chang. This book covers the ggplot2 graphics system in an efficient way -- for someone who is familliar with R graphics. If ggplot2 is completely new, then start with the Appendix. NOTE the link should work if you have a UCB ip address e.g. AirBears or a Demography Lab workstation.