index.Rmd

--- 
title: "Data Science with R: A Resource Compendium"
author: "Martin Monkman"
date: "`r Sys.Date()`"
site: bookdown::bookdown_site
output: bookdown::gitbook
documentclass: book
bibliography: ["book.bib", "packages.bib"]
biblio-style: apalike
link-citations: yes
links-as-notes: true
colorlinks: true
cover-image: Moralia_in_Job_MS_dragonslayer.jpg
github-repo: MonkmanMH/DataScienceResources_book
description: "A modest and very incomplete listing of resources for tackling data science problems in R."
---



# Preface  {-}

<img src="Moralia_in_Job_MS_dragonslayer.jpg" width="350" height="460" alt="Moralia in Job - dragonslayer" />

_Draft_

This book grew out of my evergrowing collection of reference materials that was saved as an expanding array of markdown files in a github repo. By assembling it as a book, I hope that it will be more accessible and useful to other R users.



## Acknowledgements {-}

The author would like to acknowledge everyone who has contributed to the books, articles, blog posts, and R packages cited within.


## Some important details {-}

**License**

<a rel="license" href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/ca/"><img alt="Creative Commons License" style="border-width:0" src="https://i.creativecommons.org/l/by-nc-sa/3.0/us/88x31.png" /></a><br />This work by [Martin Monkman](https://github.com/MonkmanMH) is licensed under a <a rel="license" href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/ca/">Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.5 Canada License</a>.


**Source code**

The source code for this ebook can be found at this github repository: https://github.com/MonkmanMH/DataScienceResources 

This book is written in **Markdown**, using the [**bookdown**](https://bookdown.org/yihui/bookdown/) package, and published to the web at [bookdown.org](https://bookdown.org/).


```{r eval=FALSE}
install.packages("bookdown")
# or the development version
# devtools::install_github("rstudio/bookdown")
```




**Cover image**

The cover image is the [historiated initial R from the frontispiece of a 12th-century manuscript of St. Gregory's _Moralia in Job_, Dijon, Bibl. Municipale, MS 2](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C%C3%AEteaux_Moralia_in_Job). The manuscript was made at the famous reform monastery of Cîteaux in Burgundy around 1111; the frontispiece was added later.

It was downloaded from [wikipedia commons](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Moralia_in_Job_MS_dragonslayer.jpg); that site notes that the image is in the public domain.


I had initially wanted to use a photo of the Main Hall of the old Cincinnati Library, which one can find all over the internet. But going to the source, I see that it's _not_ offered by the Public Library of Cincinnati under an open license. But you can follow [this link and see it there](https://www.flickr.com/photos/cincinnatipubliclibrary/3357891281).