Resources

PLSC 66003: Advanced Political Analysis

Software Setup

Install these before the first class:

• R (latest version)
• RStudio or Positron
• Quarto

Required packages

install.packages(c(
  "tidyverse", "modelsummary", "fixest",
  "marginaleffects", "here", "quarto", "tinytable"
))

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Textbooks and References

Primary

• Wickham, Cetinkaya-Rundel, and Grolemund. R for Data Science (2e, free online)
• Imai. Quantitative Social Science

Supplementary

• Huntington-Klein. The Effect (free online)
• James et al. An Introduction to Statistical Learning (free online)
• Healy. Data Visualization: A Practical Introduction (free online)
• Arel-Bundock. marginaleffects documentation

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R Resources

Getting started

• RStudio Primers – interactive tutorials
• Posit Cheatsheets – one-page references for tidyverse packages

Data wrangling

• dplyr documentation
• tidyr documentation
• readr documentation

Visualization

• ggplot2 documentation
• R Graph Gallery – examples with code
• Cedric Scherer’s ggplot2 tutorial

Tables and output

• modelsummary documentation
• tinytable documentation

Quarto

• Quarto documentation
• Quarto for academics

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Getting Help

1. Check the documentation – most R functions have excellent help files (type ?function_name)
2. Search online – Stack Overflow and Posit Community are excellent
3. Ask me – come to office hours or email me