RStudio Tutorial for Beginners: Introduction to R Studio and Basics of R Maxime Rivest
784K views · 13K likes · 6 years ago
Best R Tutorial Videos
200 R videos from top YouTube educators, ranked by views and engagement. YouTube channels teaching R programming for statistical computing and data analysis. Learn tidyverse, ggplot2, R Markdown, and statistical modeling techniques.
See R Channels →As of July 2026, the best R tutorials on YouTube come from 44 verified creators across 200 indexed videos. Ranked by total views, the top picks are "RStudio Tutorial for Beginners: Introduction to R Studio and Basics of R" by Maxime Rivest (784,013 views) , "Introduction to R and RStudio" by Hefin Rhys , and "Tutorial R 1.1: Primeros pasos con Rstudio #Rstats | Usa R!" by Econometría con R. Full ranked list below, updated weekly from the YouTube Data API.
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We indexed 200 R videos from 44 YouTube channels to find the tutorials worth your time. The average R tutorial gets 18,655 views, but the top videos below far exceed that — these are the ones developers keep coming back to.
The most-watched R tutorial has 784,013 views from Maxime Rivest. Other top educators include Hefin Rhys and Econometría con R.
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