Hi, everyone.
I just want to introduce a experimental feature that
we've, that we've developed for the R programming class.
It's called Statistics with Interactive R Learning or SWIRL for short.
And it's, and it was developed by Nick Carchedi, who's
a student here at the Johns Hopkins department of bio-statistics.
This is a system that allows you to kind of interactively learn R at your own pace.
And it will walk you through a, a bunch of lessons about different
aspects of the R language and you can kind of practice as you go.
So, rather than kind of watching a lecture and then,
you know, doing an assignment and kind of doing things
piece by piece, you can actually work on R right
in the R console in, in a kind of guided way.
Rather than kind of just figuring things out on your own.
So, I think this, the SWIRL modules are really helpful
and I encourage you to try to walk through them.
If you decide to complete them you'll get you'll
get a little extra credit through the programming assignment.
But the, the modules are absolutely not required.
They are totally optional.
And so, you don't have to worry about doing them.
You can still do perfectly well in the class without doing the SWIRL modules.
Nevertheless, I encourage you to try it out.
I think it'll be a lot of fun.