Thread by @lingtax

So I heard about a really bad take today, that things that are available free online aren't good enough to be worth money.

To counteract that rubbish call, here I tender a list of free, online #rstats books that I recommend above paid ones #OER
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This list (of course) begins with @djnavarro's Learning statistics with R. Want a brilliant, approachable entry to both statistics and #rstats when you have no prior background, I can recommend nothing else.
learningstatisticswithr.com/book/

Got less of a psych focus and coming from a #DataScience angle, well you must read @hadleywickham & @StatGarrett's #R4DS. It has it's own supportive community (@R4DScommunity) that you should check out also.
r4ds.had.co.nz #rstats

What happens if your data is text? Well you go to @juliasilge and @drob's Tidy text mining in #rstats. Yet another approachable and brilliant text tidytextmining.com

Need to predict the future? Here's an intro text on Forecasting by the brilliant @robjhyndman & George Athanasopoulos. Again... it's open and free.

otexts.com/fpp2/ #rstats

What about geospatial data? That's covered too, thanks to @robinlovelace, @jakub_nowosad, & Jannes Muenchow. #spatial data makes me nervous, but this resource at least gives me some hope. #rstats

geocompr.robinlovelace.net

Everyone needs to visualise their data sometime (seriously, plot your data), but how do you do it well in #rstats? How do I produce publication quality #dataviz? Well, I start with @ClausWilke's brand new and completely awesome book. So much #ggplot joy.
serialmentor.com/dataviz/

Sometimes I just need a quick reference to get my #ggplot working, then I turn to @winston_chang's #rstats Graphics Cookbook.
Practical, direct, oh... and free.
r-graphics.org

Programming? Well there's R Programming for data science:
bookdown.org/rdpeng/rprogda…
And, of course, Advanced R
adv-r.had.co.nz
Great for everyone wanting to level up their #rstats programming.

Every one of these books I would gladly spend money on (and I have bought nearly all of them already).
The fact that these books are free is not a signal of their quality, but instead of the quality of their authors. Check them out, and buy them if you love them like I do.

This is, of course, just a partial list. If you have any other awesome free texts, share them! I'm always keen to find more!