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R for Stata users

Background

This material was developed by the DIME Analytics team as an introduction to R Statistical Package for its staff.

Course description

R is a programming language for statistical analysis and data science. It is a powerful and flexible tool widely used among statisticians and data scientists, and has a growing user base in economics research. This course is designed to familiarize participants with the language, focusing on common tasks and analysis in development research, and showing how to use R through RStudio, a popular integrated development environment for R. The course will build upon comparisons to Stata syntax and requires familiarity with the use of do-files, loops and macros. It also assumes some degree of familiarity with DIME's coding practices. All sessions are designed to last 90 minutes.

Training content

01 - Introduction to R

  • Introduction to the RStudio interface, R syntax, objects and classes.

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02 - Introduction to R programming

  • Code organization, R libraries, loops, custom functions, and R programming practices.

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03 - Data wrangling

  • Basic functions for processing data using the tidyverse meta library.

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04 - Data visualization

  • An introduction to creating and export graphs in ggplot2.

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05 - Descriptive analysis

  • How to create and export descriptive statistics table in R.

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06 - Geospatial data

  • An overview of R resources on GIS.

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07 - Introduction to R Markdown

  • An introduction to dynamic documents and R Markdown.

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License

This material is developed under MIT license. See http://adampritchard.mit-license.org/ or see the LICENSE file for details.

Main Contact

Luis Eduardo San Martin - dimeanalytics@worldbank.org

Authors

  • Luiza Cardoso de Andrade
  • Marc-Andrea Fiorina
  • Robert A. Marty
  • Maria Reyes Retana Torre
  • Rony Rodriguez Ramirez
  • Luis Eduardo San Martin
  • Leonardo Teixeira Viotti