This e-learning course is focused to students who are planning to work as IT specialists in the fields related to analytics, data mining solutions, marketing etc., who want to learn about both the practical application and implementation of data mining methods based on one of the modern programming languages R. The aim of the course is to acquire knowledge and practical experience in the field of information processing, including the acquisition of useful skills. Software R offers a large number of methods for implementing of the functional programming paradigm during the corresponding project creation and implementation. For these reasons, the proposed course is actual and interesting for students who are focused to development and practical implementations of IT technologies based on R language. The course is available on moodle webpage by link: https://kacer.ujep.cz/course/view.php?id=65 . Přístup pro hosty: data_mining_R