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  Introduction to R for Public Health Researchers
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```{r setup, echo = FALSE, message = FALSE}
library(pander)
library(kableExtra)
library(tidyverse)
library(config)

knitr::opts_chunk$set(warning = FALSE, message = FALSE)
```

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## Overview
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**Welcome to Introduction to R for Public Health Researchers!**  

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.

The course will provide students with **“hands-on” training** for analyzing data with the R programming language for statistical computing, a popular open-source solution for data analysis and visualization.  

### Instructors

`r config::get("instructors")`

### Teaching Assistant

`r config::get("ta")`

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## Class
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* `r config::get("course_dates")` 1:30PM-4:50PM on Zoom  - `r config::get("holiday")`
* Zoom link will be emailed prior to the first class.
* [Installation Instructions](https://jhudatascience.org/intro_to_r/docs/module_details/day0.html) - This is **required** before the course, but we can help you on the first day (or before) if you have trouble.
* Slack Workspace invitation will be sent directly via email.
* [CoursePlus Website](`r config::get("courseplus_web")`)
* [Syllabus](syllabus.html)
* [Materials + Schedule](materials_schedule.html)
* [Resources](resources.html)


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## Testimonials
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"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 !!"

"I feel like a data witch now! I just say poof and the data looks the way I want"

"OK - this is getting to be too much fun now"

"My 14 year old thinks this class looks cool and wants to take it (she's a wanna be engineer)"

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## Find an Error!?
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Feel free to submit typos/errors/etc via the GitHub repository associated with the class: 
https://github.com/jhudsl/intro_to_r

This page was last updated on `r Sys.Date()`.

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