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Learner Reviews & Feedback for R Programming by Johns Hopkins University

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About the Course

In this course you will learn how to program in R and how to use R for effective data analysis. You will learn how to install and configure software necessary for a statistical programming environment and describe generic programming language concepts as they are implemented in a high-level statistical language. The course covers practical issues in statistical computing which includes programming in R, reading data into R, accessing R packages, writing R functions, debugging, profiling R code, and organizing and commenting R code. Topics in statistical data analysis will provide working examples....

Top reviews

JM

Aug 11, 2019

Very challenging, but good course. I've been programming in R for over a year, but there were still some things for me to pick up in this class. Assignments were a challenge, but satisfying to tackle.

WH

Feb 2, 2016

"R Programming" forces you to dive in deep.

These skills serve as a strong basis for the rest of the data science specialization.

Material is in depth, but presented clearly. Highly recommended!

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By Joseph M

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Nov 12, 2020

Decent course. Material is a bit stale, aka questions are common on several sites. The course was not really challenging, though i did learn a few new tricks.

By Prashanth S

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Mar 14, 2018

The pace of the course can be increased. Unnecessary videos present. Time is very valuable. Fitting max useful information in less time in the most important.

By Hirak C

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Sep 11, 2017

I have achieved my objectives of learning the basics of R through this course. Only I wish there were little bit more information on the plots... ggplot2 etc.

By javier g

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Mar 17, 2022

The course isn't bad, but you need to be aware that it gets quite difficult at the 2nd week. I had to stop it because the assignment was way to difficult.

By Krishan K P

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Dec 21, 2018

faculty is quite quick...must be clear and understandable to the students. pause and resume this happened quite often....but the overall process is good ...

By Maxim M

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Nov 18, 2017

Good course, at the end a bit difficult as you have to program your own functions. For a person with no R knowledge at all would be very difficult to pass.

By Andy I

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Oct 9, 2016

Decent class with good programming assignments. I wish there had been more examples of actually writing code in the lectures, but that is my only complaint.

By chris a

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Apr 13, 2016

Only problem was the large gap between the assignments and lectures. Swirl exercises should not be optional as they are the most helpful part of the course.

By Noor M N

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Aug 28, 2018

The course is fun coz of swirl. But the tutorial videos aren't very informative. sometimes it's not so clear. I think improvement can be made at that area.

By Pavan E

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Feb 26, 2016

Designed for everyone who wants to know the basics of R along with introduction on how to play with large amounts of data and get the statistics out of it.

By Pramod N

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Jan 10, 2016

Good course. Would have been great to see a few more examples to explain concepts but otherwise great flow and good support through swirl coding practices.

By Robert H I

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Apr 2, 2020

You might consider splitting the quiz in week 1 into a quiz over the lecture material and a quiz over the programming assignment. Similar to weeks 2 and 4

By Shridul S

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Feb 24, 2019

The lectures were very well-explained & detailed but the assignments were very hard to solve. Overall this was a quite challenging course and I loved it .

By Morgan R

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Oct 25, 2016

Great course. Challenging and requires some independent problem solving, but from my experience, that's the way it should be. Fun and interesting as well!

By Vladislav P

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Aug 19, 2016

Very good introductory curse of R language, teaches you everything you need to start your own projects, shows you resources to start learning on your own.

By Anna

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Mar 4, 2016

Thank you for course! I really appreciate it, I've learnt basics of R. But I'd expect that there are more excercises and more features of R be highilghted

By Prem T

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Sep 2, 2020

the course is nice and the lectures are easy to understand but what's bothersome is the skill gaps between what's taught and what's given for assignments

By Alexander T

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Apr 27, 2017

Programming assignment is not fully covered in the lectures, prefer to have subject metter completely covered instead of searching for everything online.

By Lily C H

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Jul 10, 2016

It is a very hard class for anyone who has never programmed before, in order to complete the assignments you have to look for a lot of extra information.

By Michael H

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Oct 18, 2020

Needs more training and practice for the writing of functions assignments and quizes, it's very hard for someone like me with no programming experience.

By Carl T

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Jul 10, 2020

Very good course. Programming assignments were enjoyable and challenging. They may be a little difficult for someone without a programming background

By John P

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Feb 23, 2016

The content was great, especially the swirl() library. The instructions were a little confusing at times, but the online advisors helped to sort it out.

By Phillip L

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Jun 30, 2019

Really great course! I wish though that the programming assignments were more hands-on and that common packages used in industry e.g. dplyr were taught

By Teodor G

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Oct 11, 2019

the level of the material and the level of the tasks did not match, I had to turn to other sources (such as udemy) to successfully complete the course

By Bret S

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Jun 7, 2017

Good course overall. The course would be better if the learning activities better prepared you for the difficulty of the final programming assignment.