At last week’s R Open Lab, we explored two packages (Memisc and foreign) as well as some of R’s native commands for loading data files into our R Studio workspace.
We practiced with ASCII, .TSV, .SAV, and .DTA files, all available from ICPSR, a data archive with a rich collection of social science data sets.
We’re taking a break from R Open Labs this week, but we’ll be back on February 17 at 10 am in the DSSC.
Share your thoughts and suggestions with us here, and we’ll see you next week!
Last week, we kicked off R Open Labs with a demo on Base Graphics, or how to make graphics using basic commands. We also gave a brief intro to Swirl, a great package for learning R.
You can catch up here with these helpful slides: Base Graphics System
Check back next week, Wednesday, Feb. 3 at 10 am, for a quick demo on how to load different data files into R, a free I <3 R button, and plenty of time to practice your code and ask questions.
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