Video Tutorials for Descriptive Statistics with R, 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: Descriptive Statistics with R


How to Make Histograms
From thatRnerd (7:11)


Create a frequency distribution table, bar chart, and identify the mode of a nominal-level variable (zodiac signs).


Analyzing age of General Social Survey respondents.

WATCH & LEARN: Descriptive Statistics with R


How to Make Histograms
From thatRnerd (7:11)


Create a frequency distribution table, bar chart, and identify the mode of a nominal-level variable (zodiac signs).

WATCH & LEARN: Descriptive Statistics with R


How to Make Histograms
From thatRnerd (7:11)

Additional Resources

CRAN Task View: Teaching Statistics
Information about R packages that assist with the teaching of statistics.

R Short Reference Card
A cheat-sheet type reference, very helpful.

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

Reproducible Data Treatment with R
Web course material from Colin Bousige

R Documentation
Online help files.

Additional Resources

CRAN Task View: Teaching Statistics
Information about R packages that assist with the teaching of statistics.

R Short Reference Card
A cheat-sheet type reference, very helpful.

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

Additional Resources

CRAN Task View: Teaching Statistics
Information about R packages that assist with the teaching of statistics.