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I am a firm believer in teaching base R before moving onto the tidyverse, and Norm Matloff’s post on Teaching R in a Kinder, Gentler, More Effective Manner is spot-on.

John Bentley's great bumper-sticker bits of programming wisdom.

A fantastic cross-reference of operations in R, Python, and Matlab/Octave by Vidar Bronken Gunderson. [archived]

Common statistical tests are linear models by Jonas Kristoffer Lindeløv

Rob Hyndman’s Twenty rules for good graphics

A good explanation of why you should use natural logs on betterexplained.com

Writing R Functions. Some sound advice.

New York Times article on the growing use of R, from 7 January 2009. Thanks to Scott Gifford for finding this!

Max Pekarsky on The Overflow, on writing code other people can read.

Why p-values should be avoided (or at least used with great caution)

FiveThirtyEight on why scientists have difficulty explaining p-values.

A follow-up by Nate Silver on the problems with p-values.

Nature on the problems of p-values.

AGU's EOS forum (24 November 2009, v. 90, no. 47) on statistical significance, geological significance, and the problem with p-values.

The XKCD Corner

XKCD on Tufte. Hover your mouse over the comic for Tufte.

XKCD about the misinterpretation of p-values in the popular press.

XKCD on curve fitting and the messages they send.

XKCD with a modified Bayes’ Theorem.