I’m very happy to announce the addition of 6 new books to the Big Book of R collection, which now stands at about 420 books in total! Thanks to Isabella Velásquez, Emil Hvitfeldt and Metehan GÜNGÖR for their submissions :). If you’d like to help out a little ...

Drumroll please……………….!!!!! With the addition of these 7 new books, the collection now stands at over 400 entries of (mostly) free R books! Many thanks to Markus Gesmann, Jacobus, Max Cotera, Luis, Olivier Leroy and Gary for their latest contributions. This a truly a one-of-a-kind resource. I want to give … The post ...

The Big Book of R has a collection of almost 400 free R books and as we round out 2023 it’s the perfect time to look back at which have been the most popular. I track the stats and they’re openly accessible. Some of these also have print versions. Get … ...

01 June 2023 Earlier this year I applied to the R Consortium for a grant to upgrade the Big Book of R. Unfortunately my proposal wasn’t accepted, but I am really proud of how the proposal turned out. I’ve never written a proposal before and wasn’t really sure of ...

7 May 2023 Thanks to Niels Ohlsen for for helping me add the books, and to Adejumo Ridwan Suleiman and Mokandil for their submissions. If you’d like to support the Big Book of R financially, you’re welcome to leave a donation at my Kofi account. Thank you very much to … ...

The R Consortium has opened a call for proposals seeking projects that improve the technical or social infrastructure of the R ecosystem. For a long time now I’ve wanted to make some upgrades to the Big Book of R which will enhance it’s usability, stability and enhance the ...

03 March 2023 Welcome to this new edition of Big Book of R additions! Thanks to Lluis Revilla and Gary for submitting books! I also wanted to give a special shout-out to Niels Ohlsen (a long-time RStats twitter mutual!) who helped me review book submissions and add these to the … The post 7 ...

30 September 2022 The Big Book of R has just had 5 new additions to the collection! Thanks to Gary and Adejumo for some of them! PS for those who may be interested, I have posted my replies to some great questions about cleaning a messy dataset. officeverse by David … The post 5 New ...

02 September 2022 Today we have another huge addition of books to the library, now consisting at 350 R programming books! Thanks to Gary and Abraham for the additions! Using Spark from R for performance with arbitrary code by Jozef Hajnala This book provides practical insights into using the sparklyr … The post 23 New ...