Econ294 2015 Notes and Code

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

Course Syllabus

Lectures

• Jan 8 2015 - Intro, R Environment, RStudio, interactive programming, data structures.
• Jan 15 2015 - R's data structures.
• Jan 22 2015 - Functional programing and vectorized operations.
• Jan 29 2015 - Scripting and style.
• Feb 5 2015 - R programmng topics continued
• Feb 12 2015 - Grammar of graphics, (base-graphics, ggplot2 and ggvis)
• Feb 19 2015 - Grammer of data manipulation. (dplyr, plyr and tidyr)
• Feb 26 2015 - Advanced Topics 1.
• 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

• Due Jan 14 2015 - Getting Started PDF
  Example assignment starter