RStudio & General Helpful Links:

Some helpful tips & tricks to work more effectively in RStudio

Possibly the most useful resource, the Big Book of R is a comprehensive collection of books about/for/involving/referencing R, and includes everything from the basics to in-depth full volumes on dynamic programming in R

Packages – To use Base or Tidy (or data.table)?

There are a million discussions on whether or not to use Base R or TidyR. Keep in mind that a lot of these are written by the people who work at RStudio, who are amazing and do great work in R education, but also are the ones who built and maintain the tidyverse, so the opinion you will get from them should be interpreted with that in mind. Here’s a good even-handed discussion of the various merits, but also more importantly a comparison of the different ways to do things.

My favourite blog on why to use Base R. I (Cole) used to be an ardent believer in the Tidyverse, and I still use it for most of my day to day work, but this blog convinced me to think about teaching Base R (as Emma originally suggested) and I think there are some great points made here.

For the sake of even-handedness, here is a blog that believes Tidyverse is the way to go.