They might be fine, but there are actually some really fantastic books targeted explicitly at biology and ecology based subjects. Depending on what you are teaching, I can recommend a number of books that all come with R code
For the basics (of both R and statistics), you cant go past the R bible (written by an ecologist): https://www.amazon.co.uk/R-Book-Michael-J-Crawley/dp/0470510242 <https://www.amazon.co.uk/R-Book-Michael-J-Crawley/dp/0470510242> Analysing ecological Data (Zuur et al) http://www.highstat.com/book1.htm <http://www.highstat.com/book1.htm> - some of the code is a tiny bit outdated, but easy to update (or failing that, use an R Version prior to 3.15.0 for teaching purposes. Hedley Grantham’s new ggplot2 book is amazing for graphs: http://had.co.nz/ggplot2/ <http://had.co.nz/ggplot2/> For bayesian statistics, its gelman and hill. Hope this helps, Megan Quantitative Ecology and Decision Science The University of Hawaii at Manoa E: [email protected] M: +18084626449 T: @ultimatemegs Web: https://mdbarnes.wordpress.com/ > On 26 Nov. 2016, at 7:47 pm, Nathan Brouwer <[email protected]> wrote: > > >
