Acknowledgement

This book is the product of numerous collaborative efforts. Among all people, we would like to thank Dr. Rebecca Betensky, Dr. Rumi Chunara, and Dr. Hai Shu, for the initial planning of the new courses GPH-GU 2183: Introduction to Statistical Programming in R and GPH-GU 2183: Intermediate Statistical Programming in R. In addition, we are most grateful to the students in the course GPH-GU 2183: Introduction to Statistical Programming in R in Fall 2021 at New York University. The list of people that made contributions include Xiaofeng Yang (@well9801), Neethu Grace Johnson (@neethujohnson01), Yifan Lai (@Yifan-Lai), Ruiming Yu (@OmakaseMaster), Zhihao Chen (@edwardzchen), Fan Bi (@fanbithededenne), Rebecca Yu (@rjy2107), Ting Lu (@tinglusince), Yang Yang (@YoArtemis), Jian Li (@kegemor), Grace Lin (@gracexlyhl), Xin Chen (@zoexinchen), Wanyu Hua (@hiWanyu)