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    Learner Reviews & Feedback for Getting Started with R by Coursera Project Network

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    About the Course

    In this 2 hour-long project, you will learn the basics of R programming language. In addition, you will take your first steps in the use of R
    programming language for Data Analysis. By the end of this 2-hour long project, you will understand how to use the R GUI called R studio. By
    extension, you will learn the different data types and data structures used in R. Finally, you will learn how to install packages and how to import
    data sets into the R studio work space. This course is aimed at learners who are looking to get started with the R programming language.
    There are no hard prerequisites and any competent computer user should be able to complete the project successfully.
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    Feb 21, 2021

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    Thank you for this short beginner's course. I loved the way you have explained it in detail as being very new and had very little knowledge about R programming. Thank you for sharing your knowledge.

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    Dec 4, 2020

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    The best R tutorial i've come across so far. The course structure is sequencially well structured and the hands on practice platform and video tutorials are excellent

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    Jan 18, 2021

    While the "walk-through" software used to facilitate learning is pretty cool, I found the instructor's spoken English difficult to understand and his teaching style rather dull. He simply worked through a long list of tasks with no narrative to explain why each skill might be useful in practice. The course was somewhat useful for learning to navigate the R Studio platform but it was not useful for actually using it in practice. For that, I have found far more success using self-guided work-throughs of online resources or exercises in Andy Field's Discovering Statistics Using R textbook.

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    By Alina K

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    Nov 29, 2020

    Unfortunately, the lecturer's accent is very distracting and I couldn't focus... If I had a chance to listen to his English prior to the enrolment, I wouldn't pay for the course.

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    Feb 25, 2021

    The accent of the instructor was bad and sometimes he was making minor mistakes during the lectures, making the course very difficult to attend properly. I lost my patience half way and couldn't keep up. It's a pity though, because it's a good introductory course for R (I especially liked the side-by-side video with the interface were I could code in real-time).

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    By Mahfuza I

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    Oct 12, 2020

    This is not worth the money.

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    By Karlo A L

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    Oct 14, 2020

    Easy to follow and covers the basic of the basics. Also serves as a good refresher for those who haven't worked with R in a long time.

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    Oct 10, 2022

    The module instructors has explained very well the basic of R however, the material provided in GitHub is not accessible. It will be good if material that is data or reading material be email or provided to other accessible plateforms

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    By Igor S

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    Feb 28, 2021

    This is a perfect first step in R. The basics are explained clearly, something that some other courses, that focus on more advanced features, lack. Good pace and convenient to use technology. Recommended for any beginner (even if you know a little about R but still struggle with concepts).

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    Dec 4, 2020

    The best R tutorial i've come across so far. The course structure is sequencially well structured and the hands on practice platform and video tutorials are excellent

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    By Jorybell M

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    Oct 17, 2020

    A good start in learning R

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    By Surbhi K

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    Oct 5, 2020

    I really enjoy this course

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    By Alan D P

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    Jan 6, 2022

    Had done some R before, this was a good refresher to the basics. The instructor makes a few mistakes during the course but corrects them as he goes but sometimes you need to watch out for the pop-up message to see the correction, which you might miss if you are typing in the RStudio console.

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    By Lorelle B

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    May 28, 2021

    The length of the course and the content was good. However, it was very hard to understand the instructor and I had to pause the video many times just to catch up as he seemed to move quickly.

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    By Ronald U

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    Sep 15, 2020

    Excelente curso

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    By Karin G

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    Feb 5, 2021

    Thank you for the Course! As in some R courses I know, it starts at a good pace and then quickly becomes too fast for beginners. It would be important to give an example of what you can do with it to get away from the abstract level. Also it would be helpful to know where to store and retrieve the scripts. Where can you get an overview of the r commands? Hints on the correct spelling would be important! Space, Ctrl Enter... etc.

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    By Robyn J

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    Jul 25, 2021

    Good informations but there is no read along option and I am wasting time trying to understand his accent. Dropping class for another option.

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    By Stacey W

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    Apr 4, 2021

    Good class - very hard to understand the instructor

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    Feb 24, 2022

    The english of the instructor is very difficult to understand, and also I didn't like the flow and couldn't really follow. I left the session before it ends.

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    By Michael H

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    Jan 5, 2021

    This a short and sweet course that provides a great primer for R. It focuses strictly on the essentials/basics, such as how to create objects, subset data frames and import files. The instructor approaches the course as if you've never used R before, and even though I have some R experience, I still found myself learning quite a few useful tricks and some new functions. Thanks for the great course!

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    Feb 21, 2021

    Thank you for this short beginner's course. I loved the way you have explained it in detail as being very new and had very little knowledge about R programming. Thank you for sharing your knowledge.

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    Dec 2, 2020

    Awesome course. I appreciate your explanation everything by details and I advise everyone who has just started learning the R language.

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    By Gavriilidis G

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    Dec 22, 2021

    Exceptional course, the instructor is amazing and very encouraging. This is a very nice introduction to R coding.

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    By Elisa C

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    Mar 30, 2021

    I didn't where to start learning R, this is such a great way to start R course for super beginners like me

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    By Smart H

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    Aug 8, 2021

    Very simple and concise, effective at the same time. This is exactly what I hoped for in this lecture.

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    Mar 17, 2021

    Good introduction to R, I learned all the basics necessary to get started. Instructor was very clear

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