R for Data Science (2e) – The Healthcare Service Analytics & Decision Intelligence Atlas

R for Data Science (2e)

Summary

R for Data Science is a free online book that teaches how to do data science with R, from importing and tidying data through to transforming, visualising and communicating it. It is built around the tidyverse collection of packages, including ggplot2, dplyr and tidyr, and Quarto for reporting.

Rating: Gold

A widely used, freely available book written by the creators and maintainers of many tidyverse packages, with extensive worked code examples and exercises, and the full source openly available.

Atlas Entry authored by: | Sammi Rosser (Link) |

R for Data Science is one of the most popular introductions to data science in R. The second edition covers the whole data science workflow:

Importing data from files, spreadsheets, databases and the web
Tidying and transforming data with the tidyverse
Visualising data with ggplot2
Writing functions and iterating
Communicating results with Quarto

Although it is not specific to healthcare, the skills it teaches apply directly to day-to-day work in health and care analytics.

You can read the book for free at https://r4ds.hadley.nz.