Econ294 2015 Notes and Code

Course materials for R-Lab (Winter 2015 Econ 294 - Applied Economics Lab, R focus)

Course Syllabus

Note No office hours March 3.

Lectures

See the lecture director for notes.

• Jan 8 2015 - Intro, R Environment, RStudio, interactive programming, data structures.
• Jan 15 2015 - Continued...
• Jan 22 2015 - R's data structures.
• Jan 29 2015 - Grammar of data manipulation, Part 1, dplyr One-table verbs
• Feb 5 2015 - Grammar of data manipulation, Part 1, dplyr two-table verbs & tidyr table reshaping.
• Feb 12 2015 - Functional programing and vectorized operations, scripting and good style.
• Feb 19 2015 - Grammar of graphics, (base-graphics, ggplot2 and ggvis)
• Feb 26 2015 - Grammar of graphics pt 2, SQL...?
• Mar 4 2015 - Advanced Topics 2.
• Mar 11 2015 - Advanced Topics 3.

Advanced topics will include working with relational databases (MySQL), package development, S3 Classes, and others.

Assignments

• Assignment 1 - Due Jan 14 2015 - Getting Started PDF
  Example assignment starter - Solutions
• Assignment 2 - Due by Jan. 22 2016 - PDF
  Example assignment starter - Solutions
• Assignment 3 - Due by Feb 5th 2016 - PDF
  Example assignment starter - Solutions
• Assignment 4 - Due by Feb 19th 2016 - PDF - Solutions
• Assignment 5 - Due by Feb 26th 2016 - ggplot2 PDF - Solutions