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As you go through the course there will be numerous green sections. These will have a On Your Own: Swirl Practice. Swirl is a in R style of learning. It was originally designed for the Coursera courses and now is in use in many other courses. You will see something like this in here:
On Your Own: Swirl Practice
In order to learn R you must do R. Please follow the steps to below to install your swirl() courses:
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Click here to download the file
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Go into the RStudio Console and paste the code below into the console window:
install.packages("swirl")- Enter the following from the R console, substituting the correct file path to your downloaded file:
library(swirl)
install_course_zip("path/to/file/here/swirl_courses-master.zip", multi=TRUE)
swirl()For example, if you download the zip file to ~/Downloads/swirl_courses-master.zip, then the following command will install the R Programming course.
install_course_zip("~/Downloads/swirl_courses-master.zip", multi=TRUE)