Expository material on R

Deepayan Sarkar

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This page gives links to slides of various talks and lectures on R that I have given. It is not an exhaustive list, and only the latest versions of essentially similar talks are included, although there is sometimes substantial overlap.

The first set of slides are from a course on introductory programming (mostly with R), so they proceed somewhat systematically. The focus is more on the language and less on applications.

• Brief Overview of Programming Concepts

• An Overview of R

  • Part 1

  • Part 2

• Basic Usage

  • Vectors and Indexing

  • Lists and Data Frames

  • Functions and Attributes

  • S3 Methods and the Help System

• Evaluation

  • Lazy Evaluation and Quoted Expressions

  • Non-standard Evaluation

• Loop Alternatives

  • replicate()

  • lapply()

  • sapply(), apply(), tapply()

• Miscellaneous Topics: Matrix Operations, Replacement Functions, do.call()

The following slides were written for one-off lectures or short workshops.

• A High-Level Introduction to R

• The Formula Interface for Model Specification

• Lexical Scope and Evaluation

• R Graphics

  • Data Visualization in R: An Overview

  • Visualizing Large Data: Broad Themes

  • Static Graphics Systems in R

• Lattice Graphics

  • Introduction

  • Basic Usage

  • Customization: Annotation, Themes, and Scales

  • Customization: Panel Functions and Layers