Allie Choate

PhD Student in Clinical Psychology

Free R-Resources On the Web!

2 minutes
August 15, 2022

Here are some links to awesome free R resources that I’ve come across. Many of these tutortials or books I routinely use myself, and have found extremley helpful for learning R and running more advanced models!

Helpful General R-Books/Tutorials


Data wrangling, exploration, and analysis with R by Jenny Bryan

Learning Statistics with R by Danielle Navarro

R Cookbook

YaRrr! The Pirate’s Guide to R by Nathaniel Phillips

Dr. Buchanan’s Seriously Awesome & Comprehensive Stats Website

Hadley Wickman’s Advanced R Book - An Amazing Resource!

Russel Poldrack’s Statistical Thinking for the 21st Century

R for Data Science

RStudio Essential Videos

Resources for Learning R by Matt Crump

Getting used to R, RStudio, and R Markdown by Chester Ismav

Answering questions with data: Lab Manual

Exploratory Data Analysis with R by Roger D. Peng

Fundamentals of Data Visualization in R by Claus O. Wilke

Creating Graphs/Plots Easily in R & Information About Plotting:

Introduction to Data Science by Rafael Irizarry



RMarkdown Resources


R Markdown: The Definitive Guide, by Yihui Xie, J. J. Allaire, & G. Grolemund

Introduction to R Markdown by Dr. Michael Clark

RMarkdown for Scientists by Nicholas Tierney

R Markdown




Dr. Hallquist’s Intro to SEM using Lavaan

Dr. Michael Clark’s SEM Website

Sacha Epskamp’s Website

SEM in R by Maurico Vargas

Structural Equation Modeling in R using lavaan by Alison Schreiber

Data Analysis Posts & Tutorials by Ian Ruginski

Latent Variable Modeling Using R: A Step-By-Step Guide

Structural Equation Modeling with lavaan




Longitudinal Models - Code & Resources


If you are looking for a great resource that has a ton of code examples for BOTH lavaan and Mplus, check out the Personality Development Collaborative website that also has recommended readings for several types of models as well.

Personality Development Collaborative

Additionally, Dr. Newsom has some fantastic code examples published on his website that have more thorough explanations in his Longitudinal SEM textbook (see below!)

Longitudinal Structural Equation Modeling: A Comprehensive Introduction



GitHub Specific Resources


Code With Chris

Dr. Garrison’s Data Science Course Resources