Instructor:  John Ahlquist
Lab Instructor:  Carlisle Rainey
Lab Time:  Friday, 1:25-3:00
Lab Place:  HCB 302

Schedule

Note: I've changed my website since teaching this class, so some of the urls referenced in the code won't work.

Lab	Title	Topics	Lab Materials	Data Files	Other Potentially Useful Files
1	Introduction to R Programming	Libraries, some programming technicalities, loading data, summarizing data, linear regression, some LaTeX tips	Lab 1, Presentation	anes1992.dta, anes1992.csv	Code for histograms,some humor,detailed intro
2	Graphics in R	Indexing and loops, the plot() function in detail, other graphics functions.	Lab 2, Exercise, Presentation	None	margins, colors, complete plot
	Maximum Likelihood Estimation in R	Introduction to Zelig,functions, optimization	Lab 3, Zelig example, Presentation	None	Normal regression in Zelig, simulation paper
4	Logit and Probit in R	Zelig for logit and probit,plotting functions,plotting inferences	Misc, Analysis	CSES subset	Logit and probit regression in Zelig
5	Evaluted Models of Binary Variables	Gradients for optim(),cross-validation in R,ROC and BIC for logit models	gradient, cross-validation, ROC curves	None
6	Ordered Logit and Probit in R	Ordered logit and probit,categorical explanatory variables,contrasts	Lab 6	None
7	Unordered Logit and Probit in R	Zelig for unordered categorical models, Q&A	None	None
8	Poisson Regression in R	Zelig for Poisson regresson,Q&A	None	None
9	Multi-Equation Models in R	Zelig for multi-equation models,Q&A	John Ahlquist's sample code, simulating distributions
10	Multiple Imputation in R	Amelia, other software,Q&A for class projects	Amelia

Resources for R

Link	Description
Wikipedia on R	If you are like me, you turn to Wikipedia as an introduction to people, ideas, math, and software.
Wikibooks on R programming	Excellent source on programming in R with lots of examples. Organized by topic as well.
Simon Jackman's Take on R	Pages 20-22 of The Political Methodologist, vol, 11, no 2. Also see the two articles on computing with R that follow Jackman's piece.
Installing R and Text Editors	This .pdf gives an excellent set of instructions for downloading and installing R and choosing a text editor. It has equally good discussions of R for Windows and Mac.
Quick-R	Quick-R is a website designed to help users of other statistical packages such as Stata, SAS, and SPSS, transition smoothly into R. This site does assumes little, but some knowledge of statistics.
R manuals	These are the official manuals for the R packages. These are probably too technical for new R users, but after becoming more familiar with the software, these are very useful.
A Course on R	An online course maintained by John Fox designed to introduce students to R.
Google's R Style Guide	A set of stylistic rules for writing R scripts. These rules are designed by the R user community atGoogle. Using a consistent style makes your code easier to read andcorrect.
Text editor instructions	Andrew Gelman's instruction for setting up text editors for R in Windows
Zelig	Gary King's software that allows estimating and working with inferences from many common models in political science. See Imai, King, and Law (2008).

Resources for LaTeX

Link	Description
sample2.pdf, sample2.tex	The .pdf gives lots of useful tips as well as code to create LaTeX documents. The .tex files gives the LaTeX code used to produce the .pdf. Courtesy of Matt Golder. Here is a .zip file containing the .bib file and images necessary to compile. Here Matt provides the LaTeX code for a paper recently published in AJPS as well as some information on posters.
LaTeX code for first lab	This is just the LaTeX code for the Beamer presentation slides for the first lab.