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Learn to use R in the age of AI, starting from wherever you are.
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Lessons, resources, and livestreams on what actually works with AI.
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Courses on R foundations, useful for those just starting out with R.
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High-level overviews of topics so you can use AI effectively.
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- Every Ally lesson and resource to help you use AI and R together
- R courses to help you if you're just starting out
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Hi, I'm David
I've run R for the Rest of Us since 2019. In that time, I've taught thousands of people to use R through self-paced courses and cohort programs, produced hundreds of blog posts and videos, spoken at conferences, and written a book on R.
But AI? That's new for all of us, me included. Nobody has it figured out yet. So I'm doing what I did with R: learning it for real, in the open, and helping you figure it out along the way. Whether you're writing your first line of R or your ten thousandth, that's what Ally is for.
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Lessons, resources, and livestreams on using R and AI together.
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Lessons
What I've learned, condensed into one idea at a time.
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Chat, extension, or terminal: where to work with AI
AI Foundations
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Choose an AI provider
AI Foundations
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Write prompts that get good R code
AI Foundations
Lesson
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Your first data analysis with AI
Data Analysis
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Keep your data secure while working with AI
Data Privacy
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Give your AI standing instructions with an AGENTS.md file
AI Foundations
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An introduction to AI skills
AI Foundations
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Use AGENTS.md files and skills together
AI Foundations
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Understand R code you didn't write
Code Review
Resources
AI skills to help you work more effectively.
Workflow
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Rapid Learning
Data Analysis
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Review R Scripts
Communication
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Data Narrative Builder: Turn Findings into a Story
AI Foundations
Show Me: Explain Visually with Diagrams and Sketches
Tidyverse
Modern Tidyverse Patterns
Package Development
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Developing R Packages
Quarto
Quarto Authoring
Tidyverse
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Modern Tidyverse R Reference
Data Visualization
Dashboard Specification: Plan a Dashboard Before You Build It
Accessibility
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Write Accessible Alt Text
Data Analysis
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Peer Review for Analysis
Data Analysis
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Analysis Planning: Scope the Work Before Touching Data
Branding
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brand.yml: Brand Identity Files for Quarto
Shiny
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Deploying to Posit Connect
Data Visualization
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ggsql Query Writer
Data Analysis
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Building Pipelines with targets
Tidyverse
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Writing Tidyverse R
Branding
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brand.yml
Livestreams
Me working through real projects with AI, figuring it out as I go, live on YouTube.
Upcoming livestreams
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Write prompts that get good R code
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Your first data analysis with AI
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Keep your data secure while working with AI
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Give your AI standing instructions with an AGENTS.md file
Livestream
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An introduction to AI skills
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Use AGENTS.md files and skills together
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Understand R code you didn't write
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Debug R error messages
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Translate between base R and the tidyverse
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Rubber duck debugging with Claude
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Verify AI output you don't fully understand
Livestream
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Build Quarto reports and websites
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When to let AI drive and when to drive yourself
Past livestreams
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Start from wherever you are
AI can't do much for you if you don't understand how R works. New to R? The core courses take you from your first line of code to real projects. Already use R? The guides give you the background on specific topics that you need to work well with AI.
Core courses
New to R? Take these courses in order.
From "what's R?" to "I love R!"
These courses have helped thousands learn R.
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Course 1
8,358 people enrolled
Getting Started With R
One of the main obstacles that many new R users face is simply getting started. This free course is designed to get new users, no matter what’s holding you back, up and running quickly. It takes you step-by-step, helping you download exactly what you need to get started.
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Course 2
1,261 people enrolled
Fundamentals of R
R can be intimidating. I know because it intimidated me before I learned how to use it.
But the thing is, you don't need to know everything about R in order to use it.
Fundamentals of R takes a focused approach, helping you learn the fundamental skills that you need to succeed.
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Course 3
1,014 people enrolled
Going Deeper with R
Once you’ve got the fundamentals of R down, you can do a lot with R. But what happens when:
Your data isn’t in the right format to plot with
You get messy data and don’t know how to deal with it
You want to go beyond reports to produce presentations, dashboards, and website from Quarto documents
These are just a few of the questions that Going Deeper with R is designed to answer.
Guides
Know R? Go deeper, one topic at a time.
Short guides that give you the background knowledge needed to work effectively with AI assistants.
13 min read
Data Cleaning
Real data never arrives ready to use. The everyday cleaning moves in R and the packages that handle them, so you can point an AI assistant at the right one.
12 min read
Data Viz Principles
What separates a polished, persuasive chart from a default one. The design thinking behind {ggplot2}, so you can guide an AI assistant and judge what it hands back.
17 min read
Designing Effective Tables
A table is a data visualization, too. How to guide the reader’s eye with {gt}, a package that follows good design principles by default, so you can steer an AI assistant.
12 min read
Mapping with R
What geospatial data is, then how to make static and interactive maps and do some geospatial analysis. Enough of the concepts and tools to direct an AI assistant.
11 min read
Packages
From a first custom function to an installable package. Enough of each step and its tools that you can direct an AI assistant through the details.
Coming soon
Git and GitHub
Version control for R users. How Git tracks your work and how GitHub shares it, so you can let an AI assistant change your code without fear of losing anything.