1 Forecasting task 2 Essentials to work with R 3 Important things to know about R 4 Install and load packages 5 Getting help in R 6 Be patient with R, and with yourself 7 Next blog 8 Github for forecasting using R 9 References Following the delivery of a series of workshops on forecasting using R in the developing countries-please see democratising forecasting section- and some other organisations such as NHS in the UK, I am going to publish series of weekly posts (every Friday) to make them accessible to a wider audiance.