I'm taking this right now. Can somebody provide some perspective on how thoroughly the course prepares you for using R? Does it give you a good enough grounding in statistics so that you won't shoot yourself in the foot with R?

I thought http://oli.cmu.edu/courses/free-open/statistics-course-detai... was a great introduction, after completing it.

Thanks for the link, I have been meaning to revise some statistics, four years of barely doing any makes you forget a lot.

After that you can take the AI course on Udacity.