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It was a very begginer friendly course for R! I loved it

Ingrid Miron
Ingrid Miron Medical Student, INCMNSZ

This is an excellent introduction to R and Rstudio and the capabilities of R. It was easy to understand and the exercises and tips were very helpful. I learned a lot. Thank you for offering this us to dip our toes into using R.

Eric Excellent beginner course...

This was super helpful in kickstarting my experience with R! Thank you!

Josie Mandrea
Josie Mandrea

I've been dipping my toes in the R water for many years, your site and approach has been the most accessible and useful by far!

Bohdanna Kinasevych
Bohdanna Kinasevych Leading4Impact

Hello, i really appreaciated the way the actions in R were described. However, i still struggle to understand the concrete benefit of R. I am wondering, wheter R can do controlling reports as well ? I mean, i work for a retail company, and every month i have to prepare revenue, profit reports of sales of the different product groups. I usually prepare these reports in Excel..... so i monthly have to export all the necassary data from our ERP-System into Excel sheets and then i have to collect and prepare them in one report. Do u think R Studio can do the same thing so that it is less effort for me?

Julia Kaiser
Julia Kaiser Product Controlling

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.

Caitlin GIllespie
Caitlin GIllespie Gap Inc.

I have tried multiple times to get started with R and failed, this is the first time I'm beginning to appreciate the logic of it!

Lalitha Vaishnavi Subramanyan
Lalitha Vaishnavi Subramanyan Postdoc, Duke

Solid intRo to R :)

Nicholas Whittington
Nicholas Whittington Learning & Development Consultant, OMNI

I really enjoyed this course: * The wording is super clear. * The pace feels just right. * The interface is brilliant to navigate the video through the search box or the script. Thanks for the smooth experience!

Will Eskew
Will Eskew Data Analytics Lead, Salesforce

A serious course for a beginner. Watch it with pen and paper and write down important things.

Azad Ibrahim
Azad Ibrahim Data analyst / report writer
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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...