Program Introduction

The morning will start with an introduction to the program by Ian Ostrander, our DGS.

Introduction to R and RStudio

R has become a popular way to conduct research in political science because of the flexibility it provides us in manipulating, modeling and visualizing simple and complex types of data structures. And it’s free!

Today we will be providing you an introduction to how to write “code” in R using the RStudio interface. You will need to have the following pieces of software downloaded:

• R: https://cran.r-project.org/
• Rstudio: https://rstudio.com/products/rstudio/download/

Associated Code & Data

Click here to download necessary code and data for the lecture.

Additional readings for the interested

• Why R?