https://github.com/kosukeimai/qss-package

R package for data and code used in "Quantitative Social Science: An Introduction"
https://github.com/kosukeimai/qss-package

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R package for data and code used in "Quantitative Social Science: An Introduction"

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/kosukeimai/qss-package
• Owner: kosukeimai
• Created: 2017-01-28T07:15:36.000Z (almost 8 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2022-04-10T19:15:52.000Z (over 2 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-08-03T06:03:25.872Z (3 months ago)
• Language: R
• Homepage: https://kosukeimai.github.io/qss-package/
• Size: 25.1 MB
• Stars: 15
• Watchers: 4
• Forks: 11
• Open Issues: 0
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.Rmd

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# Quantitative Social Science: An Introduction

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```{r, include=FALSE}

library("printr")

```

An R package containing the datasets used in

> Kosuke Imai. 2017. **[Quantitative Social Science: An Introduction](http://press.princeton.edu/titles/11025.html)**. Princeton University Press.

See [kosukeimai/qss](https://github.com/kosukeimai/qss) for other supplementary materials and the original data sets.

The website for this package is available at [https://kosukeimai.github.io/qss-package](https://kosukeimai.github.io/qss-package)

## Install

**qss** is not available from CRAN, install the package from github with:

```{r eval=FALSE}

# if you have not installed the `devtools` package

# install.packages("devtools") 

library("devtools")

install_github("kosukeimai/qss-package", build_vignettes = TRUE)

```

## Usage

To list all data sets contained in this package:

```{r, eval = FALSE}

data(package = "qss")

data(elections, package = "qss") # load the elections data

vignette(package = "qss") # list all vignettes

browseVignettes("qss") # list vignettes and R code

vignette("causality", package = "qss") # show the vignette for the Causality chapter

```

The Federalist papers text files are in the `extdata/federalist` directory of the installed package and need to be accessed as follows:

```{r eval=FALSE}

library("tm")

federalist_dir <- system.file("extdata", "federalist", package = "qss")

dir(federalist_dir)

corpus.raw <- Corpus(DirSource(federalist_dir))

corpus.raw

```

In 1.3.5 "Data Files", several types of data files are discussed.

These are included in `extdata/`:

```{r eval=FALSE}

library("foreign")

dir(system.file("extdata", "data_files", package = "qss"))

load(system.file("extdata", "data_files", "UNpop.RData", package = "qss"))

read.csv(system.file("extdata", "data_files", "UNpop.csv", package = "qss"))

read.dta(system.file("extdata", "data_files", "UNpop.dta", package = "qss"))

```

# Build Package and Documentation

To rebuild `README.md` from `README.Rmd`:

```{r eval=FALSE}

rmarkdown::render("README.Rmd")

```

The [site](https://kosukeimai.github.io/qss-package) for the package is built using [pkgdown](https://github.com/hadley/pkgdown):

```{r eval=FALSE}

# devtools::install_github("hadley/pkgdown")

pkgdown::build_site()

```