Sometimes I joke that I should have gone into software engineering in college, because I enjoy coding so much. I am very much a novice in programming, and the extent of my knowledge is currently limited to simple functions and scripts. But, I do learn new things everyday. I mostly code in R, followed by SQL, STATA, and finally, SAS. The thing I like about coding is that it allows me to be self-sufficient with my research, and it’s not a hard skill to learn. It does have a bit of a learning curve, but by no means do you need to be in a classroom to master the basics. Again, fortune favors the bold. Be bold, and try to learn some coding on your own!
In the future, I’d like to write some tutorials like my colleague, Mark Bounthavong, has done that might be useful for other people coding in R. For now, I’m working on expanding my GitHub repository with coding I’ve used for previous projects. For now, this tab is under construction!