R resources

Books

• R for Data Science: introductory textbook by RStudio’s Chief Scientist, Hadley Wickham
• Geocomputation with R: introductory textbook for geospatial analysis in R
• Spatial Data Science: more advanced textbook for geospatial analysis in R, with a heavier focus on methods

Courses

• DIME’s R for Stata Users: introduction to R language using common empirical research tasks. Requires some knowledge of coding (though not necessarily in Stata)

Community

• R for Data Science Slack: slack workspace for the R4DS community
• Tidy Tuesday: weekly R community activity to share data visualizations and the code to create them

Consultation materials

• List of R packages for difference-in-differences estimation: includes sample codes and links to package documentation and original paper
• RStudio cheatsheets
• RStudio IDE shortcuts and tips
• Tidyverse Style Guide

Sample code

• Demo for exporting tables
• Mostly harmless replication repository
• R main script example
• Regression tables

Useful packages

• reprex
• DeclareDesign: suite of packages to simulate data, randomize treatment assignment and sampling, describe research design and conduct linear estimations
• fixest: functions to perform estimations with multiple fixed-effects
• Comparison of R packages for Automated Exploratory Data Analysis