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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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You'll work on your own code every week and get in-depth feedback.

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What made me decide to engage with R in 3 Months was the focus on accessibility and inclusivity. It promised to simplify the complexity of R and make it approachable for someone like me who didn't have a strong background in programming or statistics. Before the course, my use of R was quite limited and mostly experimental, and I was not fully comfortable with the language. However, after completing R in 3 Months, my confidence and competence in using R have significantly increased. Now I use R regularly for a variety of tasks, such as data manipulation, data wrangling, data cleaning, statistical analytics, and data visualization. This has allowed me to leverage R more effectively in my professional projects.

Jose Luis Villca Villegas
Jose Luis Villca Villegas Medical Researcher

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

Hi! This course is just the simplest way I have found to understand R. Thanks a lot!

Javier Samayoa RDA Scientist, Kerry

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

Rajesh Rajendran
Rajesh Rajendran Senior Manager, Siemens

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

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

Ingrid Miron
Ingrid Miron Medical Student, INCMNSZ

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

After learning R through self-study and short courses, I realized my knowledge was fragmented—I understood pieces but lacked a clear conceptual map. R in 3 Months by David Keyes has been transformative: its well-structured videos, hands-on exercises, and live sessions helped me connect those pieces and finally see R as a coherent system rather than a collection of disconnected tools. It also helped me tackle a persistent challenge: forgetting functions and their underlying logic by showing me how to effectively leverage AI to refresh my memory and uncover unexpected connections. The support of Gracielle Higino has been equally invaluable, making the learning process both effective and encouraging.

Alberto Cabrera
Alberto Cabrera Professor Emeritus, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Very helpful and clear introductory course!

Nga Yu Hui
Nga Yu Hui

This was a great course for me, just starting to use R and now I got just the introduction I needed to be up and running using R.

Kjell Høyland
Kjell Høyland Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU)
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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...