Registration is open for a new online course entitled *Fundamentals of Using R*. This course has never been offered online. The course is being offered through the Information Institute (http://www.information-institute.org), a charitable, non-profit, educational and scientific organization.

R (http://www.R-project.org) is a powerful, open source, data and statistical analysis programming environment. The early registration cost (through April 23) for the 14-hour, 5 week course is $195 (student); $250 (faculty); and $295 (practitioner).

This is the first course on R that anyone should complete. This course is designed for people who are curious about R, new to R, and who would like to obtain a basic knowledge of R capabilities that apply to any ultimate intended use of R. This course instructs about the R environment: using workspaces; importing and exporting data; R data types, data structures, and objects; writing simple and complex scripts; essential R functions and packages; writing your own R functions and packages; programming with R; publication-style 2-D and 3-D graphics capabilities using special R packages, and many other essential topics. The course is designed to serve as a useful knowledge foundation regardless of one’s ultimate use of R (for example, statistical and data analyses, programming, writing scripts or creating packages, using graphics, etc.). There is more information at the URLs below.

The informational (and registration) site for the AM version (AM by US Eastern Time) is here: https://www.regonline.com/R-fund-may-AM This course runs on five consecutive Fridays from May 27 to June 24, from 11AM until 2PM ET.

The informational (and registration) site for the PM version (PM by US Eastern Time) is here: https://www.regonline.com/R-fund-may-PM This course runs on the same five consecutive Fridays (May 27-June 24), but in the evenings from 6PM until 9PM ET.

Feel free to email ghubona@vcu.edu with any questions or for more information.

Geoff Hubona

Information Systems Department

Virginia Commonwealth University