R tips

This will be a repository of tips for using R. To add a tip, just create a link below, for example: Separating the Red Sea and save the page. The link will be red. Just click on the red link and you will automatically be editing the page. Nothing like a blank canvas to share your hard-gleaned wisdom!

Contents 1 QERM wiki pages about R 1.1 General 1.2 Plots 1.3 Spatial Analysis 1.4 Numerical analysis 1.5 Other 1.6 Compatibility with LaTeX 2 Useful External Links

QERM wiki pages about R

General

• Editors that make writing R code easier
• Testing functions in R
• Working with files in R

Plots

• General Information on Plotting
• Plots for Publication
• Colors
• Making Inset Maps
• Ocean Colors: Obtaining and presenting satellite based chlorophyll concentrations maps
• Bathymetry data: like Ocean Colors, but for depth, and not as sophisticated yet
• Polygons from images sourced outside R
• Perspective Plots
• Contour Plots
• Adding letters to identify sub-figures

Spatial Analysis

• R/Interfacing with GIS

Numerical analysis

• Optimizers
• Making a Correlated Random Walk

Other

• Interactive Debugging in R
• String Manipulation
• Run C code in R
• Running Windows/DOS shell commands in R
• Classes in R
• Totally Miscellaneous

Compatibility with LaTeX

See...

Useful External Links

• R for Beginners by Emmanuel Paradis
• YaRI - Yet another R Introduction by Andreas Handel
• R Users Wiki, with information of relevance to all levels of experience.
• A useful pdf cheat-sheet
• The NCEAS R Programming Resource Center
• R Graph Gallery - with lots and lots of sample plots and code.
• RSeek - the R-Google, or Roogle, or gRoogle, or something.
• A nice style guide for R syntax written by R users who work at Google.
• James Forester's R tips - Is a nice little blog with plenty of ecology related R tips, much in the vein of the QERM R tips.
• Biological Data Analysis Using R by Rodney Dyer is an open textbook on using R with biological applications. Note, in particular, the chapter on manipulating images.