This course is part of the FAES Graduate School and is being offered Fall 2021.

This course is a fully asynchronous 7 week online course.

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R is one of the most popular programming languages for data science and statistics. It is a free and open source language available for all major operating systems. It is extensible through a packaging system that has resulted in over 12,000 user-contributed packages available on CRAN.

In this course we will provide a practical approach to learning R using examples, with the intention to get you using R for your data analyses, data visualization and reporting as quickly as possible. We will try to avoid the more esoteric and “computer science-y” aspects of this programming language. We hope this approach and personal practice enables you to get started using R for your own work, find resources you may need beyond this course to help you answer your particular questions, and develop workflows for your data analyses that allow you to generate tables and figures for research papers, for example.

The instructor has been using R in his daily work at NIH and earlier for many, many years and have a pretty detailed knowledge of R’s advantages, pitfalls, tricks and shortcuts. Don’t hesitate to reach out and ask your questions.


library(ggplot2)
data(iris)
ggplot(iris, aes(Sepal.Width, Sepal.Length, color=Species))+geom_point()+
  labs(x='Sepal Width', y = 'Sepal Length', color='Species')


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