[huac]

If you're serious about the math, read "The Elements of Statistical Learning' instead. Same guys, just as much R code, but harder.

http://statweb.stanford.edu/~tibs/ElemStatLearn/

[sarwechshar]

What online beginner machine learning courses or templates would you recommend that utilize R?

[huac]

I don't really know what you're looking for. If it's a replacement for that Coursera ML class in Python, then I don't think there really is one. The basic tenets of ML aren't going to change depending on your language, though.

Some good R-specific resources:

http://www-bcf.usc.edu/~gareth/ISL/ https://cran.r-project.org/web/views/MachineLearning.html http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/sloan-school-of-management/15-097...