There are plenty of tutorials for R—just google. I’m sure someone else has written a much better tutorial than I could write.
R is a full blown programming language without a simple to use GUI (at least not in the base package), so if you don’t have any programming experience it might be slow going. But the freedom of a programming language makes the learning curve worth it (if you’ve used SAS, you understand what I mean)
My grad program offers 1 credit course in R to first year grad students, and much of it is available online. When it comes to statistical graphics, the stuff on ggplot2 is particularly relevant, and in the first 2-3 sets of lecture notes.
Is there a good existing tutorial for R? If not, do you have the time and background to write one?
There are plenty of tutorials for R—just google. I’m sure someone else has written a much better tutorial than I could write.
R is a full blown programming language without a simple to use GUI (at least not in the base package), so if you don’t have any programming experience it might be slow going. But the freedom of a programming language makes the learning curve worth it (if you’ve used SAS, you understand what I mean)
My grad program offers 1 credit course in R to first year grad students, and much of it is available online. When it comes to statistical graphics, the stuff on ggplot2 is particularly relevant, and in the first 2-3 sets of lecture notes.
See also the ggplot2 reference manual
My personal favorite: Quick-R