edunford / gvpt_r_workshops

Materials from R Programming Workshops held at the University of Maryland, College Park in the Fall 2016

R Programing Workshops

Department of Government and Politics, University of Maryland, College Park

Fall 2016

The following provides code for a series of political methodology workshops on using R which took place in the Fall 2016 at the University of Maryland, College Park. The workshops focused on:

• R Basics
• Data Management
• Basic Modeling
• Presentation

The workshops were tailored toward an "adept STATA user" who was looking to branch out into R. The goal of the workshops was to provide an underlying intuition of what is going on in the R programing environment, outline some manipulations that are endemic in political science data, give some initial intuition to modeling in R, and review some strategies for presenting results in a clear and reproducible manner.

There was some overlap across workshops as not all material was covered each time, but hopefully these scripts will serve as a useful reference. Please email if there are any questions.