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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WATCH & LEARN: Creating and Transforming Variables


Create a dummy variable that identifies veterans.


Create an ordinal level variable by transforming interval-level variable.


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WATCH & LEARN: Creating and Transforming Variables


Create a dummy variable that identifies veterans.


Create an ordinal level variable by transforming interval-level variable.

WATCH & LEARN: Creating and Transforming Variables


Create a dummy variable that identifies veterans.

Additional Resources

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

Cookbook for R
Excellent reference book by Winston Chang

R Bloggers
Many useful articles, frequently updated.

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Swirl Stats
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Additional Resources

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

Cookbook for R
Excellent reference book by Winston Chang

R Bloggers
Many useful articles, frequently updated.

Additional Resources

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