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Finding and Developing R Packages

CRAN R-Project Task Views: R packages organized by area of research.
Making a Package in R for Mac OS X Users: A handy reference guide.

Data Manipulation in R

Data.table rocks! Data manipulation the fast way in R, Markus Gesmann, Nov. 27, 2012

Machine Learning in R

Shane's Notes on Elements of Statistical Learning - Uses R
Stanford Stats 202: Data Mining Course Syllabus - Course uses R
Elements of Statistical Learning - Companion website, not specifically about R

R for Markets and Trading

Example of a Trading System Using a Support Vector Machine
Predict Wall Street - A community website

R for Social Networks

Using R for Psychological Research, The Personality Project
Have you tried to understand your network? – Random generation of network models, Edwin Grappin, Dec. 4, 2012

R for the Web

Web Scraping with R Specifically, this covers how to scrape a data table on a webpage.
How to buy a used car with R "I’m in the process of buying a used car. Since I enjoy making these decisions as complicated as possible, I’ve written some R code to scrape relevant websites for informative data. I’ve written this up as a blog entry because I think it’s a decent example of how one might use the XML package and Firebug to quickly and easily bring data from websites into R."
How to Access and Process XML-data with R

Getting help within R

Access R Documentation, type:

help.start()

Getting Help with a Function:

help(function_name)
?(function_name) # Shortcut for help()
args(function_name)
example(function_name) # Runs the examples for you

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