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I thought learning R would be difficult but the introduction was great and has given me hope that I can be good at R. Really loved how the videos were informative and easy to follow along. Thank you.

Faith Chepkoech

This course is fantastic! I can't say enough good things about it. There were a few basic functions that I had already learned in R but I had always struggled with retaining the information because I'd never quite understood the grammar around how to piece functions together. David breaks down everything into really easy to understand and digestible chunks. I was asked to complete an assessment in R for a job interview only 2 days after finishing this course; I was able to complete the assessment and was asked to progress to the next stage of interviewing. With a lifetime access, this course is well worth the money. I would 100% recommend this course to a friend or colleague.

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LOVED the course! Thank you so much for keeping everything high level enough that we don't get lost in the weeds but also providing so much helpful information. I've gone through other courses for beginners and came away still not knowing what a package was or how to import data. This course was perfect.

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Excellent course to know the basics of this great tool (R).

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David Morales Universidad Nacional de Colombia

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I've used R quite a bit in the past, but until taking this course, I felt like I was navigating a maze with my eyes closed -- running bits and pieces of code and troubleshooting each time I bumped into a wall, but never truly understanding where I'd been or where I was headed. "Getting Started with R" is the map to the maze that I never knew I needed, but now don't know how I'd live without! David clearly explains foundational concepts and makes R so much easier to understand. Whether you're brand-new to R or have been using it for years, I highly recommend this course.

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I had dabbled in R a number of years ago and needed to get a refresher of the basics before getting back into coding and data analysis using R. Getting Started With R was excellent as a refresher and would be just as good for those starting out. The videos are easy to follow and they provide practical examples to follow along. I would recommend to anyone looking to understand R

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Jordan Helms
Jordan Helms Public Health Evaluator, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

At first, I thought R was only for stats-minded people and was outside of my wheelhouse as a person who deals more with data extraction, transformation and reporting. However, after going through the R for the Rest of Us courses and learning from David about the vast capabilities of R, I quickly discovered R IS EXACTLY for people like me! Its strength in creating efficient data processing and reporting workflows is beyond amazing, and David – with his deep knowledge and genuine desire to teach and build capacity – is the perfect R guide!

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How to Get Started Using AI with R

May 27, 2026

There are so many ways to use AI with R now that it's genuinely hard to know where to start. Should you just use ChatGPT in a browser tab? Install something into your code editor? And if so, which one? I made a video walking through the main options, with the pros and cons of each. The simplest approach is the one most people start with. Pop open ChatGPT in a browser and ask it R questions the same way you'd ask anything else. It works, but you end up bouncing back and forth between the...

Introducing the {pdfcheck} R package for checking the accessibility of PDFs

February 5, 2026

Are the PDFs you're creating accessible? Can someone using a screen reader navigate them? Is the color contrast sufficient for people who are colorblind? These are questions we've been getting a lot from our consulting clients at Clarity Data Studio. And honestly? When we reviewed our own PDFs, we found there wasn't a really great tool to check accessibility and give us actionable steps to improve. So we decided to build our own. It's called {pdfcheck}, and it's an R package that helps you...

[Livestream Recording] How to Make High-Quality PDFs with Quarto and Typst

November 20, 2025

Last week, we released our massive blog post on making report templates using Quarto and Typst. R for the Rest of Us consultant Joseph Barbier and I did a livestream yesterday where we went over several questions submitted to us on this topic. In the livestream we covered several topics, including: Making complex elements that we used in the state-level immunization reports we recently created for the Johns Hopkins University International Vaccine Access Center. Taking a Typst template and...