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R Programming: Setup and Data Processing

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R Programming: Setup and Data Processing

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What you'll learn

  • In this course, you will set up an R development environment, execute simple code, and perform operations on atomic data types and data structures.

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January 2026

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Taught in English

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This course is part of the R Programming for Data Science Specialization
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There are 4 modules in this course

This course will be useful to anyone who wants to learn the R programming language, particularly to leverage it for data analysis and data science tasks. You will begin by setting up an R development environment and executing simple code. Then, you'll process atomic data types like characters, numbers, and logical. You'll also process data structures like vectors, factors, and data frames.

This is the first course in a multi-course Specialization. All of the courses in this Specialization require that you have R and R Studio installed on a Windows PC. The course setup instructions provided in the first module of this course go into more detail about the hardware and software requirements.

Before you can start developing data science projects in R, you must set up a system with the necessary tools. Then you can create a new programming project and start writing and testing your code.

What's included

1 reading5 plugins

1 reading•Total 5 minutes
  • Course Introduction•5 minutes
5 plugins•Total 180 minutes
  • Getting Started with This Course•20 minutes
  • Lesson Introduction•5 minutes
  • Set Up the R Development Environment•75 minutes
  • Write R Statements•75 minutes
  • Lesson Summary•5 minutes

Now that you have some experience with writing code in R, you can take a deeper dive into the characteristics of the language itself. Like all languages, R categorizes data in different ways. You'll need to know how to process each data type in order to successfully work with your data.

What's included

5 plugins

5 plugins•Total 190 minutes
  • Lesson Introduction•5 minutes
  • Process Characters•60 minutes
  • Process Numbers•60 minutes
  • Process Logicals•60 minutes
  • Lesson Summary•5 minutes

In the previous lesson, you worked with R's atomic data types. These atomic types are components of larger objects that structure data in more complex, yet practical forms. In this lesson, you'll learn how to process the main data structures that R supports.

What's included

6 plugins

6 plugins•Total 230 minutes
  • Lesson Introduction•5 minutes
  • Process Vectors•55 minutes
  • Process Factors•55 minutes
  • Process Data Frames•55 minutes
  • Subset Data Structures•55 minutes
  • Lesson Summary•5 minutes

You'll wrap things up and then validate what you've learned in this course by taking an assessment.

What's included

1 reading1 assignment

1 reading•Total 5 minutes
  • Course Summary•5 minutes
1 assignment•Total 15 minutes
  • Course Assessment•15 minutes

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