A guide to R for social and behavioral science statistics A Guide to R for Social and Behavioral Science Statistics is a short accessible book for learning R. This handy guide contains basic information on statistics for undergraduates and graduate students shown in the R statistical language using RStudio. The book is geared toward social and behavioral science statistics students especially those with no background in computer science. Written as a companion book to be used alongside a larger introductory statistics text the text follows the most common progression of statistics for social scientists. The guide also serves as a companion for conducting data analysis in a research methods course or as a stand alone R and statistics text. This guide can teach anyone how to use R to analyze data and uses frequent reminders of basic statistical concepts to accompany instructions in R to help walk students through the basics of learning how to use R for statistics