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R in 3 Months

Looking for even more? R in 3 Months is a cohort-based program to help you finally learn R.

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With R in 3 Months, you’ll get high-quality instruction that will guide you from R newbie to R expert.

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A great intro with simple explanations to get someone starting out in R engaged on the topic.

Rajesh Rajendran
Rajesh Rajendran Senior Manager, Siemens

R in 3 Months is a wonderful resource for beginners or experienced R users alike – truly the best R resource I know for learning and expanding R skills.

Bill Pine
Bill Pine

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

Atieno Mamma Africa

Fantastic and lovely

Charles Olalekan Collins PhD Candidate

Very well explained for beginners. Looking forward to deep dive into R now!

Adrian Passler

R has enabled me to explore my data more deeply and take control of my data visualizations. I would highly recommend the R in 3 Months program to anyone who wants to learn R.

Ibrah Sendide
Ibrah Sendide University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg

I feel like searching the internet for help with R is like looking for a very specific needle across a giant field of haystacks, and you are the metal detectors that get us where we need to be more quickly.

Hannah Koenker
Hannah Koenker Project Director, REACH Malaria

Good quick overview. I'm likely to take more courses from them in the near future. The mapping course looks very interesting.

David Wormuth

I’ve had so many false starts trying to learn R: my initial excitement at learning something new is quickly dashed by the brick wall of coding. I keep telling myself R is not for non-coders like me and off I slope back to Excel! This course is different. To use the words of one of my data heroes, Alberto Cairo, this course doesn’t try to simplify R but it helps clarify the basic skills you need. The step-by-step approach to building skills kept me engaged and learning all the way through. All the while I kept thinking, I know how I can use this in my current job.

Kevin Cahill
Kevin Cahill Data Officer, We Are With You

If an 84-year-old complete coding novice can get something out of this course, anyone can. The ability to ask questions and get answers was especially helpful.

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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...