Introductory R Markdown: dynamic documents and reproducible research for beginners

Good tutorial here.

Using knitr and pandoc to create reproducible scientific reports

Here are some helpful tips.

The Big Data Brain Drain: Why Science is in Trouble

Insightful observation and interesting comments here.

Lattice vs. ggplot2

Both lattice and ggplot2 seem really interesting and worthy of learning. But I only have time to learn one of them, and the choice is not an easy one.

Here is an awesome reference; this blog is generally very interesting; and here is something about the "brew" package.

R, LaTeX, and other stuff

This link is awesome!

Reproducible Research

http://reproducibleresearch.net/index.php/Main_Page

This is an important topic for scientists of all disciplines and deserves more attention among social scientists.