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R in 3 Months
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High-Quality Instruction
With R in 3 Months, you’ll get high-quality instruction that will guide you from R newbie to R expert.
Over the three months, you’ll go through Getting Started with R, Fundamentals of R, and Going Deeper with R, courses that have helped thousands of people around the world learn R.
Personalized Feedback
Each week, you'll be asked to apply the concepts you're learning to a real project you're working on.
You'll share your code and get personalized feedback to ensure that you really, finally learn how to apply R to your work.
Check out the sample feedback video!
Alongside a Supportive Community
You'll be on this journey alongside a supportive community that will help you learn and keep you accountable to yourself.
R in 3 Months will use a flipped classroom model. Each week you’ll be assigned to complete a set of lessons. Then, in our weekly live session (check out the sample video) we’ll go over questions related to the concepts in the lessons you completed that week and discuss ways that you’re applying your learning to your own work.
“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.
Testimonials
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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.
“Before the course, I could kind of read R code, and I could put patches together and I would Google stuff, copy and paste and hope it worked. Sometimes it did, sometimes it didn't. Now after the course, I'm much more R literate and much more confident.
“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.
“I'm extremely proud and happy to announce that in March I received a scholarship for R 3 in Months Course by R for the Rest of Us thanks to David Keyes and Charlie Joey Hadley. I want to express my deep appreciation for this amazing program, which is greatly helping me in significant professional growth. Their expertise, dedication, and commitment to helping students succeed in their different fields using data analysis and visualization in R is admirable and praiseworthy. Doing this course was definitely an enjoyable experience. Eternal thanks to R for the Rest of Us and to David & Charlie.
“I have been working with R for the past 3 years and consider myself to be a proficient user, however going through R in the 3 Months course made me realize the breadth of possibilities R offers and how much more there is to learn. I was able to pick up so many handy tricks that made my R workflow much more efficient and easier to reproduce.
“On my journey through R in 3 Months, I went from excited to overwhelmed to confident. The way David and Charlie were able to adapt to our different needs and take me from never having coded to producing a final report all in R was amazing.
“For anyone wanting to learn R, I cannot recommend this course enough!
“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.
“This course helped our office and myself grow. David is a great teacher and his videos are very easy to follow along and by letting us use our own data, we are able to see for ourselves where we need to grow and what to accomplish.
“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.
R in 3 Months is a complete package to make sure you finally learn R
High-Quality Courses
Three courses that all fit together, taking you from R novice to R expert.
Live Sessions
Ask questions about the lessons, show how you're applying your learning to your own work, and more.
Exclusive Videos
When topics come up in live sessions, we make exclusive videos to demonstrate concepts.
Answers When You Need Them
No need to wait until the next live session! Ask questions any time and get answers when you need them.
Personalized Feedback
Through live sessions and the forum, you'll get personalized feedback on how you're applying your learning to your own work.
Accountability
Don't go it alone! Learn R with others and help each other stay on track.
Schedule
Weekly Live Sessions
Live sessions will be held on Zoom Thursdays starting September 19 from 10:00am to 11:00am Pacific time, with recordings available within 24 hours.
Week 1
Welcome
Week 2
Fundamentals of Data Wrangling
Week 3
Fundamentals of Data Visualization
Week 4
Fundamentals of Quarto
Week 5
Catch-Up Week
Week 6
Advanced Data Wrangling, Part 1
Week 7
Advanced Data Wrangling, Part 2
Week 8
Advanced Data Wrangling, Part 3
Week 9
Advanced Data Visualization, Part 1
Week 10
Advanced Data Visualization, Part 2
Week 11
Catch-Up Week
Week 12
Advanced Quarto
Week 13
Final Projects and Wrap-Up
How Much Can You Learn in 3 Months?
At the end of R in 3 Months, participants submit a final assignment to show what they learned. Here's how far you can go in 3 months.
Instructors
R in 3 Months Instructors
We don't just know how to use R. We know how to teach R.
Frequently asked questions
How long will I have access to the materials?
Forever!
Can't I learn R for free? Why should I pay for this?
You’re right, there are a ton of free tutorials. You can learn R using free resources. I did! But, I will say that, looking back, I know I spent much longer than if I had taken a more structured approach. Going through R in 3 Months, you benefit from the mistakes I’ve made by taking the shortest route on your R journey.
Can I see examples of your teaching?
Yes! You can sign up for the free Getting Started course or check out sample lessons in the Fundamentals or Going Deeper courses.
Can I see what the live sessions are going to look like?
Here is a sample video from the spring 2021 cohort of R in 3 Months.
How long should I expect to spent each week to get the most out of R in 3 Months?
You should plan to spend 5-7 hours per week devoted to R in 3 Months. The breakdown of this is: weekly lessons from courses (2-3 hours), application of new concepts to your own work (2-3 hours), live session (1 hour).
Do I need to be an expert statistician to sign up?
Absolutely not! I’m an anthropologist by training. I’ve written about coming to terms with using R “only” for descriptive stats. R has a reputation for being only for hardcore quants, but it’s a tool that can benefit so many more people. That’s what I mean when I talk about “R for the Rest of Us.” That said, you should have familiarity with things such as data types (e.g. character versus numeric) as well basic descriptive statistics knowledge (e.g. calculating means etc).
I've never programmed before. Is this right for me?
People who have never programmed before are the exactly type of folks I specialize in helping (you are "the rest of us")!
Do I need to have any experience with R to participate?
Nope! You'll start out with my Getting Started with R course, which assumes you've never used R before.
Do I need any special technology to participate?
Nope! You'll use RStudio throughout, We'll conduct live sessions via Zoom, and you'll record videos of your own code using the Loom free plan.
I'm not sure I'll be able to make all of the live sessions. Can I still participate?
Yes! I expect that not everyone will be able to participate in all live sessions, given time zones and/or life. All live sessions will be recorded and posted by the next day so you can catch up whenever you're able to.
Why are you using a flipped classroom model?
I chose this approach for two reasons.
Practically speaking, allowing folks to complete lessons on their own schedule makes this program accessible to many more people around the world.
Just as importantly, I chose to do a flipped classroom model because I think it is the most effective way to learn. I've taught the material covered in the Fundamentals and Going Deeper courses live. The challenge is that participants want to move at widely varying speeds. While some people want to go fast, others prefer a slower pace. A middle ground, medium pace often pleases few and frustrates many. Using a flipped classroom model enables everyone to work at their optimal speed for learning.
I've already signed up for Fundamentals of R or Going Deeper with R. Can you give me a discount?
Absolutely! Just send me an email and I'll create a coupon code that gives you a discount equal to the amount you've spent to sign up for these courses.
Do you plan to offer R in 3 Months again?
R in 3 Months is offered twice a year, once in the spring and once in the fall.
What is your refund policy?
If you are unsatisfied with R in 3 Months for any reason, contact me in the first two weeks of R in 3 Months and I will give you a full refund, no questions asked.