About this 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 basic data science tasks. Upon completing this course, learners will have fluency at the R console and will be able to create tidy datasets from a wide range of possible data sources.
Who is this class for: This course is aimed at learners who have some experience programming computers but who are not familiar with the R environment.
Taught by: Roger D. Peng, PhD, Associate Professor, Biostatistics
Bloomberg School of Public Health
Taught by: Brooke Anderson, Assistant Professor, Environmental & Radiological Health Sciences
Colorado State University
| Basic Info | Course 1 of 5 in the Mastering Software Development in R Specialization |
| Level | Intermediate |
| Language | English |
| How To Pass | Pass all graded assignments to complete the course. |
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- Video: Welcome to the R Programming Environment
- Reading: Course Textbook: Mastering Software Development in R
- Reading: Syllabus
- Reading: Swirl Assignments
- Reading: Datasets
- Reading: Lesson Introduction
- Reading: Evaluation
- Reading: Objects
- Reading: Numbers
- Reading: Creating Vectors
- Reading: Mixing Objects
- Reading: Explicit Coercion
- Reading: Matrices
- Reading: Lists
- Reading: Factors
- Reading: Missing Values
- Reading: Data Frames
- Reading: Names
- Reading: Attributes
- Reading: Summary
- Reading: The Importance of Tidy Data
- Reading: The “Tidyverse”
- Reading: Reading Tabular Data with the readr Package
- Reading: Reading Web-Based Data
- Reading: Flat files online
- Reading: Requesting data through a web API
- Reading: Scraping web data
- Reading: Parsing JSON, XML, or HTML data
- Reading: Basic Data Manipulation
- Reading: Piping
- Reading: Summarizing data
- Reading: Selecting and filtering data
- Reading: Adding, changing, or renaming columns
- Reading: Spreading and gathering data
- Reading: Merging datasets
- Reading: Working with Dates, Times, Time Zones
- Reading: Converting to a date or date-time class
- Reading: Pulling out date and time elements
- Reading: Working with time zones
- Reading: Text Processing and Regular Expressions
- Reading: Text Manipulation Functions in R
- Reading: Regular Expressions
- Reading: RegEx Functions in R
- Reading: The stringr Package
- Reading: Summary
- Reading: The Role of Physical Memory
- Reading: Back of the Envelope Calculations
- Reading: Internal Memory Management in R
- Reading: Working with Large Datasets
- Reading: In-memory strategies
- Reading: Out-of-memory strategies
- Reading: Diagnosing Problems
- Reading: How to Google Your Way Out of a Jam
- Reading: Asking for Help
- Reading: Quiz Instructions
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Covers the basics well.
This course is awesome! I learned a lot from it.
Great introduction, practice, and archival of notes!
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MD
The course is great, and very challenging. It is a little frustrating that the course requires 1 out of 2 programming assignments to be completed, but shows you as past due despite reaching that goal...
Getting this corrected and verified by Coursera has also been difficult.