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R Tips and Tricks

My practice with R has been slow of late, but I have put up some R snippets, mostly as a reminder to myself. Here are 5 sites that have R tips, tricks, and easy explanations. I find that the documentation linked on the R project website to be less than useful if you just want to say, know how to make a log plot. These sites are better for that kind of thing.

Useful Functions and Commands

Paul Johnson's R page

Li Chen's R page

Quantitative Ecology

One R Tip a Day

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