A Portable Workbook for Data Analysis: R for the Social Sciences

A hands-on R course built around public health and epidemiology datasets. Starts with installing RStudio and moves through data wrangling with dplyr, summary tables, and plotting with ggplot2, with practice questions and solutions in every chapter.

The GRAPH Courses

A short and direct first contact with R, covering the data structures, how to read and write files, and how to produce graphics and run basic statistical models. Ideal if you want the essentials without a 400 page commitment.

Emmanuel Paradis

The official R manual, kept current with every release of the language. Covers the data types, reading datasets, writing your own functions, statistical models, and the graphics system, straight from the team that builds R.

W. N. Venables, D. M. Smith and the R Core Team