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-taught course covering a range of statistics 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

• Advanced Statistics and Machine Learning for Health Research

🎓 Courses, Tutorials & Workshops

Environmental Epidemiology

• Interrupted Times Series - Workshop at ISEE2026 by Tarik Benmarhnia and Yiqun Ma
• Times series and DLM/DLNM - CITES team workshop on timeseries and case crossover designs

OMOP Common Data Model

• RWEpi IDIAPJGol - Introduction Course to OMOP
• OMOP Tidy - Tidy R programming with the 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

• Code Book - practical coding tips and reproducible workflows - via Thiago

📦 Useful Packages (perhaps hidden within the mainstream)

• skimr - quick and tidy summary statistics for data frames