Chapter 1 About this Course

1.1 Curriculum

The course covers fundamentals of R, a high-level programming language, and use it to wrangle data for analysis and visualization.

1.2 Target Audience

The course is intended for researchers who want to learn coding for the first time with a data science application, or have explored programming and want to focus on fundamentals.

1.3 Offerings

This course is taught on a regular basis at Fred Hutch Cancer Center through the Data Science Lab. Announcements of course offering can be found here. If you wish to follow the course content asynchronously, you may access the course content on this website and exercises and solutions on Posit Cloud. The Posit Cloud compute space can be copied to your own workspace for personal use, and you can get started via this introduction. Or, you can access the exercises and solutions on GitHub.

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