I wish I would have discovered this long ago. Loading data into R or MySQL requires you to specify the full path to the file. If you do this on a Windows machine there are two annoyances. First, if you save something to your desktop the path to your desktop is really long. Second, windows by default uses backslashes...
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Applied Spatial Data Analysis with R
I have just reviewed the book Applied Spatial Data Analysis with R which has been published in the September2009 issue of the Royal Statistical Society’s Significance magazine. Applied Spatial Data Analysis with R is an accessible text that demonstrates and explains the handling of spatial data using the R Software Platform. The text’s authors have
Side by side analyses in Stata, SPSS, SAS, and R
I've linked to UCLA's stat computing resources once before on a previous post about choosing the right analysis for the questions your asking and the data types you have. Here's another section of the same website that has code to run an identical analysis in all of these statistical packages, with examples to walk through (as they note...
Rattle: an R GUI
Rattle is a graphical interface to R. It supports basic data management tasks, as well as a number of different modeling functions. I haven’t had a chance to test it out yet since I don’t have my R installation completely up to date, but it looks promising. For all of R’s strengths, one weakness is 
Documentation and tutorial roundup
I recently lost my documentation folder (oops), so I had to go online and retrieve the documentation files and tutorials that I find indispensible for working. I decided I’d save myself and everyone else the trouble by posting the list here. All of the files are available in PDF format. All R manuals Scilab documentation. 
R syntax highlighting for Smultron
Smultron is an open-source text-editor for OS X. It’s a very lean editor, but it’s fast and it was written in Cocoa. Out of the box it has syntax highlighting for Stata and LaTeX, but not R. Basic instructions for adding a rudimentary R syntax coloring file are available here. However, I have adapted the 
R Language Module for TextWrangler (and a lot of other editors)
Via this page, I just learned that there is a TextWrangler Language Module for R. The file itself is available here. To install, copy the .plist file to the following directory Username/Library/Application Support/TextWrangler/Language Modules I also recommend going into TextWrangler’s preferences and changing the color for comments. The default is a gray color that doesn’t 
Zero Inflated Models and Generalized Linear Mixed Models with R.
Zuur, Saveliev, Ieno (2012).
