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I’m wrapping up the R in 3 Months course through R for the Rest of Us now, and it’s been the best professional development experience of my life, hands down.

Rachel Udow
Rachel Udow Data Specialist, Communities In Schools

The lessons were enjoyable and easy to understand, with step by step guidance. Thank you 😊

Atieno Mamma Africa

For anyone wanting to learn R, I cannot recommend this course enough!

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

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

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

Nick King Risk Management

This course really helped me demystify the process of getting started in R!! I was so so scared and waited until the last necessary moment to get started and this guided me to get to a place where I can be successful and confident. Highly recommend!

Bridger Menlove
Bridger Menlove Graduate Research Assistant, Fadool Lab

All the basics to using and learning R, I'll definitely continue with the next course.

Henry Chung
Henry Chung Medical writer

The many hours I've spent in front of my computer crunching this data in R has me wondering why I ever did anything else with my life.

Leslie MacColman
Leslie MacColman Department of Sociology, Ohio State University

I just want to say how much I enjoyed R in 3 Months with R for the Rest of Us. It was a really great course. I was very intimidated to learn R. I finished my PhD and we were mostly working with SPSS and I started a new role where it became apparent that I needed to use and learn R pretty quickly. David and Charlie were great in helping me get up to speed and start working in R nearly every day. They make it quite fun and enjoyable to learn how to start exploring this great new, wonderful world of R. I got a lot of individualized attention and so it's a great course. I couldn't recommend it more.

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Mandy Varley Behavioral Scientist at Torch, Cleveland, Ohio
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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...