swirl courses

This is a collection of interactive courses for use with the swirl R package. Some courses are still in development and may only run on a particular development version of swirl.

The following are some of our more popular courses:

• R Programming
• Regression Models (in progress)
• Data Analysis
• Mathematical Biostatistics Boot Camp
• Open Intro

For more information regarding swirl, visit swirlstats.com or the swirl GitHub repository.

Install and run a course automatically from swirl

This is the preferred method of installing courses. It automates the process by allowing you to do everything right from the R console.

1. Make sure you have a recent version version of swirl:

install.packages("swirl")

2. Enter the following from the R console, substituting the name of the course that you wish to install:

library(swirl)
install_from_swirl("Course Name Here")
swirl()

For example, install_from_swirl("R Programming") will install the R Programming course. Please note that course names are case sensitive!

If that doesn't work for you...

Install and run a course manually

If the automatic course installation method outlined above does not work for you, then there's a simple alternative.

1. Click on the Download ZIP button on the righthand side of this page.

2. Enter the following from the R console, substituting the correct file path to your downloaded file and the name of your desired course:

library(swirl)
install_course_zip("path/to/file/here/swirl_courses-master.zip", multi=TRUE, which_course="Course Name Here")
swirl()

For example, if you download the zip file to ~/Downloads/swirl_courses-master.zip, then the following command will install the R Programming course.

install_course_zip("~/Downloads/swirl_courses-master.zip", multi=TRUE, which_course="R Programming")

Please note that course names are case sensitive!

Although we recommend you install one course at a time, if you omit the which_course argument, then all available courses from this repository will be installed:

install_course_zip("~/Downloads/swirl_courses-master.zip", multi=TRUE)

If you'd like to remove a course at any time, you can use uninstall_course("Course Name Here").