R Resources for Students
This is under construction.
The hex logo is a (very serious) homage to the iconic R package hex sticker tradition, made with ggplot2 and hexSticker.
📖 Getting Started
- The Epidemiologist R Handbook - comprehensive R reference for epidemiologists
- R for Data Science - Hadley Wickham’s essential introduction to R and the tidyverse
- Fundamentals of Statistical Software & Analysis - Oxford Population Health self-paced course covering a range of statistical tests
📊 Data Wrangling & Visualisation
- The Art of Data Visualisation - Nicola Rennie’s guide to thoughtful, well-crafted data visualisation in R - via Thiago
- Open Visualization Academy - newsletter and tutorials on data visualisation - via Thiago
📐 Statistics & Modelling
🎓 Courses, Tutorials & Workshops
Environmental Epidemiology
- Interrupted Time Series - Workshop at ISEE2026 by Tarik Benmarhnia and Yiqun Ma
- Time series and DLM/DLNM - CITES team workshop on time series and case-crossover designs
OMOP Common Data Model
- RWEpi IDIAPJGol - Introductory course on OMOP
- OMOP Tidy - Tidy R programming with OMOP
- Book of OHDSI - Observational Health Data Sciences and Informatics
Bayesian Statistics
- Statistical Rethinking 2026 - Richard McElreath’s Bayesian data analysis course, with lectures and code
Coding Practices
Bioinformatics
- Advanced Bioinformatics - a free learning roadmap (GitHub, by talharaziq, curated October 2026) from Linux, Python and R to bulk RNA-seq, with links to courses and practice exercises; a list of links to other people’s material, with no clear licence stated
📦 Useful Packages (perhaps hidden within the mainstream)
skimr- quick and tidy summary statistics for data frames
