Resources

The Penn Program on Opinion Research and Election Studies (PORES) is excited to provide a resource for the Penn data analytics community - peer tutors specializing in the R programming language. Peer tutors are available for in-person office hours to support students learning and utilizing R in their academic courses. The R tutors are available to provide constructive feedback on code and help students troubleshoot coding errors. The tutors are not teaching assistants for any specific course, but are meant to be a resource for students working on coursework or projects in PORES' R-based courses.

 

Fall 2026 Courses Supported by R Tutors

PSCI 1800 Introduction to Data Science (w/ Prof. Levendusky)

PSCI 1801 Statistical Methods for Political Science (w/ Prof. Trussler) 

PSCI 3800 Applied Data Science (w/ Prof. Pettigrew)

*PORES does not have the capacity to support other R-based courses at this time. Students looking to learn R outside of these courses should look into resources available through the Weingarten Center or RStudio.

 

Tutoring Schedule  - Fall 2026

Fall 2026 tutoring is course-specific, so students should only attend the tutoring sessions listed for their course. Tutors will only answer specific questions about debugging code. Other questions should be directed to a TA or professor.

 

PSCI 1800

Monday

• 10:15 - 11:45a with Matthew
• 12 - 1:30p with Josh

Tuesday

• 12 - 1:30p with Andrew
• 3 - 5p with Ayana

 

PSCI 1801

Wednesday

• 12 - 1:30p with Makayla

 

PSCI 3800

Wednesday

• 12 - 1:30p with Ben

Thursday

• 3:30 - 5p with Ashti

 

All office hours will be held in the Ronald O. Perelman Center for Political Science and Economics (PCPSE, 36th & Walnut Streets) Suite #406 unless otherwise noted. 

 

Please contact Katie Steele at stkath@sas.upenn.edu with any questions or concerns.