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<h1 class="title toc-ignore"><p><img src="docs/images/Intro_to_R.png" align="left" style="padding-right: 20px" width="120" /> Introduction to R for Public Health Researchers <br></p></h1>

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<p><a href="http://www.jhsph.edu/"><img alt = "JHSPH" align="right" src="docs/images/bloomberg.logo.small.horizontal.blue.png" style="width:40%"/></a> <br> <br></p>
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<h2>Overview</h2>
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<p><strong>Welcome to Introduction to R for Public Health Researchers!</strong></p>
<p>This course is for students who have little to no familiarity with the R programming language and want to learn more about how to use R to import, wrangle, visualize, and analyze data.</p>
<p>The course will provide students with <strong>“hands-on” training</strong> for analyzing data with the R programming language for statistical computing, a popular open-source solution for data analysis and visualization.</p>
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<p><a href="https://carriewright11.github.io/">Carrie Wright</a> (cwrigh60 at jhu.edu), <a href="https://www.avahoffman.com/">Ava Hoffman</a> (ava.hoffman at jhu.edu), <a href="https://clifmckee.github.io/">Clifton McKee</a> (cmckee7 at jhu.edu)</p>
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<p>Lily Koffman (lkoffma2 at jhmi.edu)</p>
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<li>January 6-16, 2025 1:30PM-4:50PM on Zoom <!-- * (In recognition of [Juneteenth](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juneteenth), there will be **no class on Wednesday June 19th, 2024.**.) --></li>
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<li><a href="https://jhudatascience.org/intro_to_r/docs/module_details/day0.html">Installation Instructions</a> - This is <strong>required</strong> before the course, but we can help you on the first day (or before) if you have trouble.</li>
<li>Slack Workspace invitation will be sent directly via email.</li>
<li><a href="https://courseplus.jhu.edu/core/index.cfm/go/course.home/coid/22418/">CoursePlus Website</a></li>
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<p>“Thanks all for a wonderful course! I feel super confident in R now and I am excited to apply what we learned to future projects. Cheers !!”</p>
<p>“I feel like a data witch now! I just say poof and the data looks the way I want”</p>
<p>“OK - this is getting to be too much fun now”</p>
<p>“My 14 year old thinks this class looks cool and wants to take it (she’s a wanna be engineer)”</p>
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<h2>Find an Error!?</h2>
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<p>Feel free to submit typos/errors/etc via the GitHub repository associated with the class: <a href="https://github.com/jhudsl/intro_to_r" class="uri">https://github.com/jhudsl/intro_to_r</a></p>
<p>This page was last updated on 2025-01-24.</p>
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