Video Tutorials for Using R for Data Analysis, R Companion to Political Analysis

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This page features video tutorials and resources to help you do political analysis with R. We created this page, and related pages, to supplement our R Companion to Political Analysis. Where possible, we leverage existing videos, but have created a number of custom online code demonstrations for our textbook.

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WATCH & LEARN: Using R for Data Analysis


This sample code creates objects, performs computations, and produces a graphic. You can modify its settings and see what happens.


How to Create and Name Vectors
From DataCamp (5:05)


Explore contents of a dataset (the 2016 NES) and variable in dataset.

WATCH & LEARN: Using R for Data Analysis


This sample code creates objects, performs computations, and produces a graphic. You can modify its settings and see what happens.


How to Create and Name Vectors
From DataCamp (5:05)

WATCH & LEARN: Using R for Data Analysis


This sample code creates objects, performs computations, and produces a graphic. You can modify its settings and see what happens.

Additional Resources

R Commander
A graphical user interface for the R program.

R Documentation
Online help files.

Quantitative Research Methods for Political Science, Public Policy and Public Administration
Web site for book, based on R, by Jenkins-Smith et al.

Live R Code Demos
Sample uses of the R Statistics Program for political science research. From Barry Edwards, Political Science Data.

Swirl Stats
Teaches you R programming and data science interactively, at your own pace, and right in the R console

Additional Resources

R Commander
A graphical user interface for the R program.

R Documentation
Online help files.

Quantitative Research Methods for Political Science, Public Policy and Public Administration
Web site for book, based on R, by Jenkins-Smith et al.

Additional Resources

R Commander
A graphical user interface for the R program.