As my daughter, Maya Gopal, gets ready to transition from high school to university, she expressed interest in learning fundamentals of statistics and some programming. For the past several months, I have been helping her to learn coding and statistics using R. Focus was on the logic of programming, data processing and management, graphing, and learning statistics from first principles. We tried to avoid excessive mathematics, instead opted for coding and logic to understand concepts.
To her credit, Maya made the effort to create an excellent set of notes in R Markdown. We are sharing these to help those who are also interested in learning both coding and statistics using R. These should be useful to anyone with limited or no knowledge of either coding or statistics. It should also be useful to those getting into data analytics, but need a refresher on R and/or statistics. And to PhD students interested in conducting empirical research. Parts about data management and graphing may be useful as well.
​Hope you enjoy and benefit from it. Please do reach out if you have any comments, suggestions or would like to contribute. In particular, please do let us know if you see any egregious errors!