Video Tutorials for An R Companion to Political Analysis, 3rd Edition

An R Companion to Political Analysis, 3rd Edition Video Tutorials: Creating and Transforming Variables

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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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Shows how to work with levels function, from Adam Petrie (29:04)


Changing Numeric Variable to Categorical
From Mike Marin (5:21)

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Working with Categorical Variables and Factors
Shows how to work with levels function, from Adam Petrie (29:04)

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