Cradle to Grave R – Absolute Beginners Guide

What makes learning R, a quirky language worthwhile? Let’s start with a list:

It’s free, open–source, and available on every platform.

If you do your analysis in R, anyone can easily replicate it.

A diverse and welcoming community

A massive set of packages. Whatever you’re trying to do, chances are that someone has already tried to do it and you can learn from their efforts.

RMarkdown makes it easy to turn your results into HTML files, PDFs, Word documents, PowerPoint presentations, dashboards and more.

R does not have to be hard to learn. In fact, it should be easy. It’s a high–level programming language that enables a casual user to do powerful things with little effort. In this course, I show you how to get started on that journey.

This course is an iterative, step–by–step guide. In most videos, I am a talking head (the little head on the bottom right of the screen). I believe interacting and talking through the problems helps you learn more in the long term. You learn the solution–oriented process as we go.

The videos are broken up into bite–size chunks. This way, you can take a concept and run with it before learning something entirely new. I expect you to follow along, typing the code. It’s much easier to cut/paste code, but when you are forced to use muscle memory, you will appreciate it in the long run more.