Getting Started With R

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R for the Rest of Us is such a helpful platform to get started in R or to improve your knowledge and skills in R! The courses are well-structured and paced. Looking forward to continuing my R learning journey!

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I learned very much from this course, and I now have a better understanding of how to use Git and GitHub with R. Before this course, I was unsure what GitHub was really about and how to integrate GitHub into my workflow. Now I feel more confident to make it an integral part of my work in R, and I am relieved to have a much better handle on version control. I have hope that it will be a great tool for collaboration going forward.

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As someone who has never coded before, this course was a lifesaver. Dr. Keyes takes you on an incredible journey as he follows a step-by-step approach to familiarise you with R and making it less intimidating to code. This course has encouraged me to continue learning R and hopefully, become proficient in it in the coming future.

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Learning R and GGPLOT with books (e.g., R for Data Science), and youtube provided me basic knowledge with many potholes. Getting Started with R assisted me in reorganizing my foundations, making sense of the patchwork of knowledge I have, while addressing several of my gaps. Of particular value are the tips as to how securing help for learning about the nuances of tidyverse functions.

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This course is a short, clear, and comforting way to get started with R starting with installing the package and opening a dataset to viewing data and defining missings and variable types. I highly recommend it if you plan to start using R.

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I really enjoyed the "getting started" course at rfortherestofus.com. It was a perfect introductory course that really got me to a very good start. Everything was explained very simply. One other thing i liked about the course was that it gave us the same files that were used in the course making it easier to follow along.

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What a great introduction to R! I have worked in Stata and SAS, but have been wanting to learn R for sometime. David's videos are fantastic - a great pace for those familiar with other programs or those for whom R is the first - and the best part is you get to go back to them as many times as you need or want! I'm excided to dive into the other R for the Rest of Us courses!!

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David, Just a note to say thank you for a clear, concise and straightforward approach to R. Shout out to Chris Garmon, University of Missouri-Kansas City, MO professor in graduate school course, Research Methods in Public Administration for steering students to your free, easily understandable course. You do a great job taking the scariness out of R by taking us step by step through learning how to use R and explaining the power R has in being able to tell a story through data and analyzing information to make decisions. Professor Garmon told us that The Washington Post uses R for it's data and that's quite a seal of approval. Thanks again for a great course. Bernita Cauthon, Kansas City, Missouri

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LOVED the course! Thank you so much for keeping everything high level enough that we don't get lost in the weeds but also providing so much helpful information. I've gone through other courses for beginners and came away still not knowing what a package was or how to import data. This course was perfect.

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Wonderful course! This helped me after more than 2 years of random googling and not knowing where to start. 24 hrs later and I can access my data and run descriptives in R! SO grateful for this resource.

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this setup was exactly what I was looking for to have resources in bite size chunks to practice and to refer back to. I knew I was too anxious to try to teach myself, but by starting the process with the course, I feel ready to open R, and find resources to do what I want to do with it, and have a foundation if I ever take a course again that works exclusively in it. I would highly recommend this course!

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Gone are the days of copy-pasting SPSS output to Excel, and Excel charts to Word, over and over again! Learning R was one of the best professional investments I have ever made, and has been invaluable in streamlining my work UBC Faculty of Medicine and the Justice Institute of British Columbia.