1. Additional Resources Introduction to R, Part II
Anna Blackstock
Statistician, Biostatistics and Information Management Office (BIMO)
NCEZID/DFWED

2. When you have a question…
Ask your nearest R user
Ask a statistician or data scientist
Search and then ask if no one has asked before on Stack Overflow
Before you ask a question, see:

3. When you get stuck . . . Tried and true methods:

4. Additional Resources Look at tutorials—R and RStudio
See USGS R resources (they are awesome):
curriculum/
Check out cheatsheets
Take a MOOC
Read an online book

5. R at the CDC--RUG
There are a lot of resources, including links to presentations and instructions for joining the listserv, available at the RUG website:

6. Advice from Dr. Seuss
“You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room.”
Dr. Seuss "On Becoming a Writer" The New York Times May 21, 1986
From Beau Bruce’s PowerPoint presentation “ Where to now_” from Emory Bootcamp 301.

7. Experienced programmers
Even experienced programmers not infrequently want to:
Pull their hair out
Throw the computer out the window
Take a sledgehammer to the monitor
Take a deep breath, a long break, or come back to it another day
From Beau Bruce’s PowerPoint presentation “ Where to now_” from Emory Bootcamp 301.

8. Keep in Mind
“The only way to write good code is to write lots and lots of bad code.”
-Hadley Wickham

9. R is everywhere!
“So to all non-technical professionals looking to get technical: If you want to become a software engineer, by all means learn Ruby or go through the Javascript tutorials on Codecademy. But if you’re simply a business professional looking to gain an edge on your peers, trust me, you are much better off learning R [1].”
–Leada co-founder Biran Liou, in “Why are YOU learning to code?”
Why Learn R?:
Why now is the time to learn R:
Kdnuggets poll:
Leada “Whare are YOU learning to code?”:

10. More R “Stuff”
Shiny by RStudio– “A web application framework for R” (
R Markdown– “An authoring format that enables easy creation of dynamic documents” (
R-Fiddle– Allows for easy code sharing, can run code from within browser (
Swirl– “Learn R, in R” (
BioConductor– “tools for the analysis and comprehension of high- throughput genomic data” (