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Thank you David for all you do. I am a newbie to data tools, and I've been wearied of them. Though my pace was a bit slow, I did understand and appreciate your style of coaching. I am now able to venture and learn more!.

Charles Obiorah Medical Laboratory Scientist, AEFUTHA, Nigeria

This was a great introductory course!

Grace Kane
Grace Kane

This is approachable and accessible. I'd recommend this program to a friend as a great way to learn enough about R to take away the fear of the difficulty of learning anything relating to code.

John Jenson

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

Rajesh Rajendran
Rajesh Rajendran Senior Manager, Siemens

thanks - helped a lot to get started with R

Ela Kurt
Ela Kurt Specialist, IBM

An excellent clear outline of some of the key fundamental processes in R enabling you to import, clean, process, visualise and communicate your data. Great teaching!

Mark Kirby Assistant Lecturer, Open University

It was really great and helpful, thank you very much!

Johanna Lebeth

The knowledge I gained over the course of doing the assignments for R in 3 Months and the final assignment is something that I use every day. I've also been able to find more opportunities and ways to use R to solve problems that I've had for years, as well as having discussions about upcoming projects and finding ways that I can use R in them in a way that I would have never sort of thought before.

Brian Slattery
Brian Slattery Lincoln Park Zoo

I am just starting R and this course was really helpful ! Thanks a lot :)

Paul Casanova

I consider myself lucky as I found Mr. David's courses in R. I loved every single tutorial in this course. What I love most about this course is that it teaches you bit by bit and step by step, literally from zero to hero. I'll recommend these tutorials to anyone interested in R programming. I'll take the next course, "Going Deeper with R." I have no intention of stopping until I finish every tutorial on this website. Thank you so much, Mr. David. I owe you a lot. Greetings from Egypt.

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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...