ECON 370 Introduction to Econometrics - Dr. Oscar Flores: Economics Software

• 1 Introduction
  • 1.1 Objectives
  • 1.2 What is R?
  • 1.3 What is RStudio?
• 2 A little about how R works
  • 2.1 It can be a really fancy calculator
  • 2.2 But working with objects makes it more flexible
  • 2.3 Scripts (.R files)
  • 2.4 Packages
  • 2.5 How does R relate to economics?
• 3 Getting data into R
  • 3.1 Data packages
  • 3.2 Times series objects
    • 3.2.1 Information about xts objects
    • 3.2.2 Extracting data from xts objects
  • 3.3 Pretty plots
  • 3.4 Linear regression
• 4 Making reports with Markdown
• 5 Choose your own R adventure

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• R @ Princeton
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