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By CB
•Mar 30, 2017
This is a critical skill and it's barely covered anywhere else. Thanks for making this course!
By CI
•Oct 07, 2017
Overall, this was a good course to learn the intricacies of building R packages.
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By Shawn McKenzie
•Feb 16, 2019
There is much I like about this course and also many areas for improvement. First, the online book that comes with the course presents an excellent overview of the steps required to build an R package. It will eventually get you where you need to go. However, some of the material is now out of date (e.g. functions moved from one package to another), there are no longer any mentors around, and the discussions boards are empty apart from people trying to get their assignments peer graded. Also, the content in the book, while good, is incomplete in many cases. I would highly suggest buying the "R Packages" book by Hadley Wickham as an additional reference since it fills many of the gaps and goes into much greater detail.
By Yi Xiong
•Feb 03, 2019
There are not so mang classmates for peer reviewing. Please set other alternative ways for grading
By Matthew Malcher
•Jan 14, 2019
good but needs a little updating - several commands this teaches you to use are now depracated.
By Anthony Sellu
•Nov 16, 2018
I finally started building R packages!!! Lots of useful bits
By Jorge Luis Ramos Zavaleta
•Sep 23, 2018
Great course!
By Zsolt Pajor-Gyulai
•Sep 21, 2018
The material is not bad, however, this is just a refurbished version of a corresponding book written by the authors. Literally, all the readings are just excerpts from this book with typos all over the place. Save some money and just read that, I think this is a minimal extra work cash grab and you feel that all throughout. The final project is fine but not too fun (and the reading material is insufficient for it), it isn't worth the money either.
By Abhinav Sharma
•Jul 14, 2018
Amazing course! Will explain every detail regarding R package creation.
By Damian Satterthwaite-Phillips
•Jun 21, 2018
Among the worst courses I have found on Coursera. Once again, just a bunch of text, cut and pasted (sloppily) from their book and other resources. Examples are poor and insufficient, and much of what they ask you to do in the project is not covered well, or at all in the course forcing you to learn on your own. I don't object to self-education, but then, why bother taking this course? Can't believe they are charging money for this.
By Ganapathi Nayak K
•May 29, 2018
Nice
By Eduardo Bizarria Gaspar
•May 28, 2018
The content was good but I have missed the videos. I can read a book, the experience with video demonstrations is better than this aproach.
