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    Learner Reviews & Feedback for The R Programming Environment by Johns Hopkins University

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    About the Course

    This course provides a rigorous introduction to the R programming language, with a particular focus on using R for software development in a
    data science setting. Whether you are part of a data science team or working individually within a community of developers, this course will
    give you the knowledge of R needed to make useful contributions in those settings. As the first course in the Specialization, the course provides
    the essential foundation of R needed for the following courses. We cover basic R concepts and language fundamentals, key concepts like tidy
    data and related "tidyverse" tools, processing and manipulation of complex and large datasets, handling textual data, and ba...
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    Top reviews

    MV

    Dec 26, 2018

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    Very Very Rigorous Course for a beginner on R language and because of its nature, after completing just one course, I feel like I have gained a lot of knowledge and also familiarity with R language.

    KV

    Jun 18, 2019

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    A very good course to read and get the valuable content of R language. This is for the students who want to learn and practice the basic and some intermediate concepts of data manipulation.

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    Oct 15, 2018

    Great overview of R with a focus on Hadley Wickham's tidyverse (very useful set of packages for data scientists).

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    Mar 21, 2018

    It is a wonderful beginner level course to start with. It really help you understand the basics and move forward.

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    Jun 23, 2018

    Great review of concepts that I had already learned at some point. Looking forward to 'Advanced R Programming'.

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    By Gregorio A A P

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    Aug 26, 2017

    Excellent, but I would be grateful if you could translate all your courses of absolute quality into Spanish.

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    Mar 21, 2019

    Very good course. The pedagogy and the course content along with the assignments is rigorous and fantastic.

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    Feb 14, 2019

    The course was well designed for beginners. It helped me to gain lot of confidence in building my knowledge

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    By Niraj P

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    Sep 6, 2017

    A wonderful course that help me a lot to learn R programming

    Thank you John Hopkins University and Coursera

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    Jan 7, 2018

    The course was very helpful on covering the basics. All the necessary materials and guidance was provided.

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    By Jean P U

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    Oct 12, 2017

    More interaction with classmates through forum is definitely needed. Other than that the course is awesome

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    By Alice M

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    Feb 1, 2019

    Solid introduction to R and the tidyverse with very nice assignments to get practice on the command line.

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    By f v

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    Aug 8, 2020

    Wonderful course! Learnt a lot. Very rigorous so be prepared to have to absorb a lot of R knowledge!!

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    By Galen S

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    Feb 8, 2017

    Really like the way the quizzes work in this class. They force you to experiment and learn by doing.

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    By Sandeep K

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    Mar 20, 2017

    Very well organized material + Swirl tutorial, e-book + videos to get well versed with R programming

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    By Shishir S

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    Nov 26, 2016

    One of the best R-coursera course. This course elevate my experiences on advanced data manipulation.

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    By Ioannis O

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    Oct 12, 2019

    A well-balanced and professional course that really helped me understand and manipulate R datasets.

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    By Pawan K S

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    May 1, 2018

    This is a great course with Practical assignments to learn all the topics covered in theory class.

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    By Francisco J A O

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    Feb 17, 2020

    An excellent course when you have some knowledge of R or at least programming in an IDE framework

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    May 27, 2017

    It's a good course. I've learned many things. The packages tidyr and dplyr are really amazing.

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    By Zeyao_Zhao

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    Mar 12, 2022

    Very techinical guidence to perform R data anlysis and pretty good as an introduction for R.

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    By Andrea P

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    Nov 11, 2017

    It's a good place to start R and joint to the book suggested in the course it is complete.

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    By Charlie A

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    Sep 20, 2018

    Great course in learning the basics of writing idiomatic R. dplyr and tidyr are so cool!

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    By Christopher B

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    Mar 7, 2017

    An excellent introduction to the concept of tidy data and the tools to manipulate it.

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    By Alexis B

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    Jul 6, 2020

    Very interesting course. You will learn how to clean, tidy and manipulate datasets.

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    By Mr. S

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    Oct 5, 2017

    A great introduction to the R environment and data manipulation with the tidyverse.

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    By CRISTIAN A C M

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    Jul 9, 2020

    It's a great course, but they can improve if publish each section with videos.

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