You can find further introductory material (tutorials, full courses) for free in the following links:

  1. R by Data Carpentry

  2. R for Beginners by Emmanuel Paradis, and a Spanish translation, R para Principiantes

  3. R manuals from CRAN

  4. R basics, from from Learn X in Y minutes

  5. R basics and Statistics and R, from Harvard University on edX

  6. About Markdown, from Learn X in Y minutes