R resources

Basic help: help("topic"), ?"topic
Search all packages that you have installed: help.search()
Find functions or objects containing a string: apropos()
Search all of CRAN (full-text): library("sos"); findFn(...) useful**)
Task views (a cute alternative view here)
- Functionality for specific areas
- See especially Phylogenetics, Environmetrics (“Analysis of Ecological and Environmental Data”)
- ctv package (installs all packages associated with a Task View)
The UCLA R FAQ is very good
Mailing lists and forums:
- general ground rules for mailing lists etc.
  - browse/lurk before posting
  - be clear about the focus of your question (e.g. r-help is not for stats questions)
  - read the documentation as carefully as you can first; indicate what you’ve read
  - “what have you tried?”
  - provide a minimal workable example (e.g. see here)
- R mailing lists will answer questions, have searchable archives
  - main list r-help@r-project.org
  - also “SIG” (special interest groups), especially r-sig-phylo, r-sig-ecology
  - in Google you can add site: qualifiers, e.g. "site:stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-sig-ecology NMDS"
- StackOverflow ([r tag)], CrossValidated
- Bioconductor support forum
- #rstats on Twitter
- R-bloggers
- d-r-users@mcmaster.ca

Phylogenetic/bioinformatic stuff

Install the BiocManager package from CRAN, then BiocManager::install()
Use setRepositories() to easily add Bioconductor to your list of package repositories
ape package (CRAN) for most basic phylogenetic/sequence stuff
- ape::read.GenBank
- DNAbin data type
brranching, taxize, traits packages for retrieving trees and species traits