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RMedicine (RClub)


The purpose of University of Calgary RMedicine (RClub) is to develop a community of people interested in the use of R. R is open source (free) and has many interesting and powerful features.  

Activities

  • Meets monthly to discuss various topics about R. Some of these topics will include introduction to R and examples of new packages.
  • Provides a R code repository for the sharing of R code and statistical techniques. The R code repository also has the ability to execute the R code in a standard web-browser.
  • Encourages the building of R code packages in various topic areas -- such as health services research and epidemiology.

Subscribe to University of Calgary RMedicine Mailing List


  • The list is called r-med-l, its address is r-med-l@mailman.ucalgary.ca
  • The info page is http://mailman.ucalgary.ca/mailman/listinfo/r-med-l  this is where you go to subscribe



R Software

R - is a free software environment for statistical computing and graphics. It compiles and runs on a wide variety of UNIX platforms, Windows and MacOS. http://www.r-project.org

RStudio - is an excellent R programming environment that can be downloaded for Windows, Mac and Linux. http://www.rstudio.org



Resources

The R Journal - is the refereed journal of the R project for statistical computing. It features short to medium length articles covering topics that might be of interest to users or developers of R http://journal.r-project.org

R-Bloggers.com Journal - is a central hub (e.g: A blog aggregator) of content collected from bloggers who write about R (in English)http://www.r-bloggers.com/

R Reference Card - http://cran.r-project.org/doc/contrib/Short-refcard.pdf

An Introduction to R - Based on the former "Notes on R", gives an introduction to the language and how to use R for doing statistical analysis and graphics. http://cran.r-project.org/doc/manuals/R-intro.pdf

Analysis of epidemiological data using R and Epicalc - The Special Programme for Research and Training in Tropical Diseases (TDR) sponsored by UNICEF/UNDP/World Bank/WHO has supported the preparation of an R add-on package, Epicalc, to enable R to more easily deal with epidemiological data. http://apps.who.int/tdr/svc/publications/training-guideline-publications/analysis-epidemiological-data

Applied Epidemiology Using R - This document will focus on core basics of organizing, managing, and manipulating epidemiologic data; basic epidemiologic applications; introduction to R programming; and basic R graphics. http://www.medepi.com/epir

Epitools R Package- epitools (epidemiology tools) is an R package for epidemiologic computing and graphics.http://sites.google.com/site/medepi/epitools.




Springer R Books

The gold standard for books on R are published through Springer in their "Use R" series. You can find all of the Springer R Books for free in electronic format through the University of Calgary: http://www.springerlink.com.ezproxy.lib.ucalgary.ca/books/

The Springer books are available as a chapter by chapter PDF download.  Many of the Springer books can be purchased as Hard Copies through the University of Calgary's subscription for $25 (including free shipping).

Some of the Springer books on R:

  • A Beginner's Guide to R
    http://www.springerlink.com.ezproxy.lib.ucalgary.ca/content/978-0-387-93836-3 
  • Data Manipulation with R
    http://www.springerlink.com.ezproxy.lib.ucalgary.ca/content/978-0-387-74730-9 
  • Applied Econometrics with R
    http://www.springerlink.com.ezproxy.lib.ucalgary.ca/content/978-0-387-77318-6 
  • Applied Spatial Data Analysis with R
    http://www.springerlink.com.ezproxy.lib.ucalgary.ca/content/978-0-387-78170-9 
  • Introductory Time Series with R
    http://www.springerlink.com.ezproxy.lib.ucalgary.ca/content/978-0-387-88697-8 
  • Statisical Methods for Environmental Epidemiology with R - A Case Study in Air Pollution and Health
    http://www.springerlink.com.ezproxy.lib.ucalgary.ca/content/978-0-387-78166-2
  • ggplot2 - Elegant Graphics for Data Analysis
    http://www.springerlink.com.ezproxy.lib.ucalgary.ca/content/978-0-387-98140-6
  • Functional Data Analysis with R and MATLAB
    http://www.springerlink.com.ezproxy.lib.ucalgary.ca/content/978-0-387-98184-0
  • Introduction to Probability Simulation and Gibbs sampling with R
    http://www.springerlink.com.ezproxy.lib.ucalgary.ca/content/978-0-387-40273-4
  • Introducing Monte Carlo Methods with R
    http://www.springerlink.com.ezproxy.lib.ucalgary.ca/content/978-1-4419-1575-7
  • Bayesian Computation with R
    http://www.springerlink.com.ezproxy.lib.ucalgary.ca/content/978-0-387-71384-7
  • Nonlinear Regression with R
    http://www.springerlink.com.ezproxy.lib.ucalgary.ca/content/978-0-387-09615-5
  • Dynamic Linear Models with R
    http://www.springerlink.com.ezproxy.lib.ucalgary.ca/content/978-0-387-77237-0
Some of the Springer books on Health Related Topics:

  • Epidemiology and the Delivery of Health Care Services: Methods and applications
    http://www.springerlink.com.ezproxy.lib.ucalgary.ca/content/978-0-306-46525-3/ 
  • Modern Infectious Disease Epidemiology - Concepts, Methods, Mathematical Models and Public Health
    http://www.springerlink.com.ezproxy.lib.ucalgary.ca/content/978-0-387-93834-9
  • Statistical methods for Disease Clustering
    http://www.springerlink.com.ezproxy.lib.ucalgary.ca/content/978-1-4419-1571-9
  • Analysing Seasonal Health Data
    http://www.springerlink.com.ezproxy.lib.ucalgary.ca/content/978-3-642-10747-4
  • Design and Analysis of Vaccine Studies
    http://www.springerlink.com.ezproxy.lib.ucalgary.ca/content/978-0-387-40313-7
  • Clinical Prediction Models - A Practical approach to Development, Validation and Updating
    http://www.springerlink.com.ezproxy.lib.ucalgary.ca/content/978-0-387-77243-1
  • Dynamic Regression Models for Survival Data
    http://www.springerlink.com.ezproxy.lib.ucalgary.ca/content/978-0-387-20274-7
  • Regression Methods in Biostatistics - Linear, Logistic, Survival and Repeated Measures Models
    http://www.springerlink.com.ezproxy.lib.ucalgary.ca/content/978-0-387-20275-4/
Statistics for Health and Biology Series:

http://www.springerlink.com.ezproxy.lib.ucalgary.ca/content/1431-8776/books/Books on Epidemiology

http://www.springerlink.com.ezproxy.lib.ucalgary.ca/content/?k=epidemiology&Content+Another good free resource at the University of Calgary for R is the O'Reilly Safari Books Online website (you will need to register for an account using your ucalgary.ca email address) http://proquest.safaribooksonline.com/

Some R books available include:

  • R in a Nutshell
  • R for Medicine and Biology
  • R Cookbook
  • R Graphs Cookbook
  • Data Mashups in R
  • Data Mashups in R - Shortcuts
  • Statistics in a Nutshell