1 Welcome :)

1.1 Your last-ever bookmark

Thanks for stopping by. If you’re like me, you can’t help but bookmark every R-related programming book you find in the hopes that one day you, or someone you know, might find it useful.

Hopefully this is the only bookmark you’ll need in future ;).

When I initially released this collection in late August 2020, it contained about 100 books that I’d been collecting over the previous two years. Since then I’ve found a few more and there have been contributions from many people. The collection now stands at over 300 books.

Most of these are free. Some are paid but usually quite affordable.

1.2 Searching

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1.4 Contributing

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1.5 Contributors

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Oscar Baruffa, Mohit Sharma, Vebash Naidoo, Julia Silge, Erik Gahner Larsen, Nicole Radziwill, Nistara Randhawa, Antoine Fabri, Jon Calder, Mike Smith, Ben Bolker, Maëlle Salmon, Laura Ellis, Bryan Shalloway, Antonio Uzal, Louis Aslett, Lluís Revilla Sancho, Brendan Cullen, Rami Krispin, Michael Dorman, Ezekiel Adebayo Ogundepo, Shamsuddeen Hassan Muhammad, Eric Leung, Isabella Velásquez, Matt Roumaya, Legana Fingerhut, Robert D. Brown III, Samrit Pramanik, Pietro Monticone, Adejumo Ridwan Suleiman, Ondrej Pekacek

1.6 License

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1.8 About me

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