About this course

An introduction to programming using a language called R, a popular language for statistical computing and graphics in data science and other domains. Learn to use RStudio, a popular integrated development environment (IDE). Learn to represent real-world data with vectors, matrices, arrays, lists, and data frames. Filter data with conditions, via which you can analyze subsets of data. Apply functions and loops, via which you can manipulate and summarize data sets. Write functions to modularize code and raise exceptions when something goes wrong. Tidy data with R’s tidyverse and create colorful visualizations with R’s grammar of graphics. By course’s end, learn to package, test, and share R code for others to use. Assignments inspired by real-world data sets.
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At a Glance:
Institution: HarvardX
Subject: Computer Science
Level: Introductory
Prerequisites:
None
Language: English
Video Transcript: English
Associated programs:
Professional Certificate in Computer Science for Data Science
Associated skills:Integrated Development Environments, Grammar, RStudio, Data Science, Computational Statistics