A hands-on introduction to the statistical package R for health data management and analysis. The first part of the course focuses on basic and essential data manipulation and visualization using R. The second part emphasizes the use of R in statistical analyses, including summarization, correlation, chi-squared test, t-tests, ANOVA, simple and multiple regression. Students will also learn fundamental R language programming to perform user-defined calculations. No previous knowledge of R or of statistical analysis are assumed.