STAT 184 — Introduction to R
Section 101 · Summer 2026 · Penn State
Welcome to STAT 184. This is the public course site for Section 101, Summer 2026.
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Course at a glance
| Detail | Info |
|---|---|
| Term | Summer Session 1 (May 18 — June 26, 2026) |
| Meets | M/T/W/Th/F, 9:35 — 10:50 a.m. |
| Location | Huck Life Sciences Building 007 |
| Instructor | Charles Costanzo (cgc5478@psu.edu) |
| TA | Xinyue Wang (xpw5228@psu.edu) |
What this course is about
R is the working language of statistics and data science. Over six weeks you’ll learn to import, clean, wrangle, and visualize real data using R and the tidyverse, write reproducible analyses in Quarto, and use Git/GitHub to manage your work. The course emphasizes descriptive and graphical analysis over inferential statistics.
By the end of the course you will have completed an independent data analysis project of your own design.
About AI in this course
You may use generative AI tools (ChatGPT, Claude, Copilot, etc.) with disclosure on out-of-class work. In-class work is closed-book. You’ll be expected to walk through your project code in person at two oral checkpoints. See the AI policy for the full details.