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R is a programming language used by some practitioners of data journalism, typically for data analysis and sometimes for visualisation. It isn't the only programming language used in this way: Python or JavaScript can both perform similar tasks, and then there's SQL, Ruby, PHP and plain old Excel. But no one expects you to know them all.

Python, JavaScript and R all have their strengths and weaknesses. And if you already know one or both of those you should be able to understand R relatively quickly (although there's a useful explanation of R's quirks for programmers here).

This repo contains a bunch of guides and resources to help get started with R, or tackle particular problems. It includes:

In addition there are lots and lots of resources to help you get to grips with R. If you want a general tutorial on using R, try some of the following:

Once you understand the basics, however, remember that the best way to learn R is to pick a project, work out what you'll need to do to complete it - and then search online for those techniques in R. Sites like R-Bloggers have lots of posts explaining different techniques to solve different problems.

In a presentation at Hacks/Hackers Birmingham, Andy Pryke also gave these tips:

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