Getting Started with R

One of the main obstacles that many new R users face is simply getting started.

Some users struggle to figure out what the nuts and bolts of getting started: what do you need to download (wait, there’s R and RStudio?), where do you enter code, etc.

Others become overwhelmed, in a classic example of the paradox of choice, with all of the resources available online for learning R. How do you know which approach to using R (and there are many!) is best?

In this course, you’ll learn what you need to get up and running with R, including getting R and RStudio set up, working with projects, installing and loading packages, importing and examining data, and more.

The course should take a couple hours to complete. A small amount of time for a large amount of learning!

About the Instructor

David Keyes

Founder

R for the Rest of Us

I’m not a hardcore quant (my PhD is in anthropology).

I’m not a coder ready to jump on you for any small mistake. I want to help others avoid the pain that I went through learning R.

A teacher at heart (shoutout to my former second grade students), I make R less scary and more fun (yes, fun).

What Others Say About the Course

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.