15 Best R Programming Courses on Coursera
We compared 15 R Programming courses currently listed on Coursera, priced from $39.00 to $79.00. 7 come from a named university or institution, including Johns Hopkins University, University of Colorado Boulder and Imperial College London. They are ordered by our CourseAsk score, which is built from how thoroughly each course describes what it teaches, whether it comes from a named institution, and how it compares on price — not from star ratings, which our course data does not include.
- Courses compared
- 15
- Price range
- $39.00 – $79.00
- Providers
- Coursera
- Last updated
- 30 Aug 2026
How these 15 courses were chosen
Every course below is a real, currently listed course from Coursera, matched to "r programming" by our catalog and ordered by our CourseAsk score. Courses whose own title names the topic rank above those only tagged with it.
The grade on each entry scores how much the provider publishes about the course before you pay — the length and detail of the description, whether it lists learning outcomes and objectives — and whether a named university or institution stands behind it. A is fully documented and institution-backed; E is little more than a title and a price. Courses with almost nothing published are left ungraded rather than marked down, because an unknown course and a poor one are not the same thing.
There are no star ratings on this page — the course feeds we license do not include them, and we would rather leave a column out than fill it with a number we cannot stand behind. What we do have is price: these range from $39.00 to $79.00, as listed by the provider when we last updated the page.
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The R Programming Environment
Offered by Johns Hopkins University
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 in...
$49.00listed price -
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Introduction to R Programming and Tidyverse
Offered by University of Colorado Boulder
This course is a gentle introduction to programming in R designed for 3 types of learners. It will be right for you, if: • you want to do data analysis but don’t know programming • you know programming but aren’t familia...
$49.00listed price -
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Expressway to Data Science: R Programming and Tidyverse
Offered by University of Colorado Boulder
R is one of the most popular languages used in the data science community and essential for any aspiring data scientist. This specialization will teach you how to do data science in R whether you are a beginning or a sea...
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R Programming: Data Analysis and Modeling
Offered by Logical Operations
To round out your R programming skills, you'll dive into its data science capabilities by loading and saving data and manipulating data frames using base R and the dplyr package. You'll also analyze data by exploring its...
$49.00listed price -
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R Programming Essentials with Microsoft Tools
Offered by Microsoft
Begin your R programming journey with this foundational course that combines essential programming concepts with Microsoft's professional development environment. Through five comprehensive modules, you'll master R basic...
$49.00listed price -
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R Programming for Data Science
Offered by Logical Operations
In our data-driven world, organizations need the right tools to extract valuable insights from that data. The R programming language is one of the tools at the forefront of data science. Its robust set of packages and st...
$49.00listed price -
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R Programming: Conditionals, Loops, Functions, and Packages
Offered by Logical Operations
In this course, you'll continue to develop your R programming skills by writing conditional statements and loops—two of the most important constructs in any programming language. You'll also structure code for reuse by d...
$49.00listed price -
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Introduction to Statistics & Data Analysis in Public Health
Offered by Imperial College London
Welcome to Introduction to Statistics & Data Analysis in Public Health! This course will teach you the core building blocks of statistical analysis - types of variables, common distributions, hypothesis testing - but, mo...
$49.00listed price -
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Logistic Regression and Prediction for Health Data
Offered by University of Michigan
This course introduces learners to the analysis of binary/dichotomous outcomes. Learners will become familiar with fundamental tests for two-group comparisons and statistical inference plus prediction more broadly using...
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Data Visualization for Genome Biology
Offered by University of Toronto
The past decade has seen a vast increase in the amount of data available to biologists, driven by the dramatic decrease in cost and concomitant rise in throughput of various next-generation sequencing technologies, such...
$49.00listed price -
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Data Visualization Capstone
Offered by Johns Hopkins University
Data visualization is a critical skill for anyone that routinely using quantitative data in his or her work - which is to say that data visualization is a tool that almost every worker needs today. One of the critical to...
$49.00listed price -
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Designing, Running, and Analyzing Experiments
Offered by University of California San Diego
You may never be sure whether you have an effective user experience until you have tested it with users. In this course, you’ll learn how to design user-centered experiments, how to run such experiments, and how to analy...
$39.00listed price -
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Statistical Modeling for Data Science Applications
Offered by University of Colorado Boulder
Statistical modeling lies at the heart of data science. Well crafted statistical models allow data scientists to draw conclusions about the world from the limited information present in their data. In this three credit s...
$79.00listed price -
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Entrepreneurial Finance: Strategy and Innovation
Offered by Duke University
From entrepreneurs to executives, this Specialization provides an opportunity for you to learn how to advance business innovation in your company and gain insights from leading faculty in the Fuqua School of Business at...
$49.00listed price -
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Linear Regression in R for Public Health
Offered by Imperial College London
Welcome to Linear Regression in R for Public Health! Public Health has been defined as “the art and science of preventing disease, prolonging life and promoting health through the organized efforts of society”. Knowing w...
$49.00listed price
Best R Programming Courses on Coursera compared
Prices shown are the provider's listed price when we last updated this page. Confirm on their site before enrolling.
What the prices here tell you
The 15 priced courses on this page run from $39.00 to $79.00, with the middle of the range around $49.00 — a spread of $40.00. The options are closely priced, so cost is unlikely to be your deciding factor. A higher price on this page usually reflects who is behind the course rather than how much material it contains, so it is worth opening two or three at different price points and comparing their syllabus before deciding.
Who is behind these courses
These courses come from Coursera. Everything on this page is sold on the one platform, so the buying experience is the same whichever you pick. 7 of these are produced by a named university or institution, including Johns Hopkins University, University of Colorado Boulder and Imperial College London — which usually means a fixed syllabus and a recognised certificate, rather than an individual instructor’s own course.
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