Questions

• What are the advantages of quantitative analysis?
• What are some of the main methods used in quantitative analysis?
• How can quantitative analysis help us to understand the 2019 Australian Federal Election result?

Exercises

• Exercise: What can we learn from The Guardian analysis?
• Extension exercise: How could you replicate this study? How could it be improved?

Questions

• What is the structure of this course?
• What teaching philosophies informed the design of this class?
• What is the purpose of live coding? The post-it notes? The Google Doc?

Exercises

• Starting exercise: What was the best course you ever studied? What made it so great??
• Closing exercise: Multi Choice Quiz (with post-it notes) about the unit guide!

Questions

• Why use R and RStudio?
• What do I do when R breaks? How do I get help?
• Getting started: How do we open projects, scripts, and data?
• How do I run simple commands in R? Create objects? Calcuations? Run functions?
• How do I manipulate data frames? New variables? Subset?

Exercises

• Exercise 1: Importing the data from The Guardian article.
• Exercise 2: How do I get help?
• Exercise 3: Subsetting the data from The Guardian article.

Summary

This document provides a detailed step by step guide and also videos for installing R and RStudio in Windows and on a Mac.

Summary

This is a place where I put useful tips and advice on using R and RStudio. Much of the tips here are very useful. However, I don’t want to overwhelm you with too much information, so I’ve put the non-urgent advice here.

Current Topics

• Tip: What are all the files in the Files Tab?
• Tip: How to run lines of code?
• Tip: Installing packages
• Tip: Commenting with hash #
• Tip: Finding and setting a working directory
• Tip: Filepaths in R
• Tip: Watch out for quotation marks: ’ and " are not the same as ‘ ’ “ and ”
• Tip: Cheatsheets
• Tip: If RStudio Hangs