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.

R Programming: Setup and Data Processing
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R Programming: Setup and Data Processing
This course is part of R Programming for Data Science Specialization

Instructor: Bill Rosenthal
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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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