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# ----- Introduction to R: Getting Started ----- #
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# INSTRUCTOR: Chris Fariss 
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# Copyright (c) 2012, under the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License.
# For more information see: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/us/
# All rights reserved. 
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# ----- install R ----- #
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# download R here: cran.r-project.org/
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# open the .R file using any text or source code editor such as:
#	TextEdit, emacs, Aquamacs, notepad++ , or Xpad
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# set the working directory to the folder containing the data files 
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# the set working directory command in R is setwd()
#	type ?setwd for help documentation 
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# to set the path type into R: 
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# setwd("PATH_NAME")
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# where PATH_NAME is the path to the folder with the data
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# ----- install packages ----- #
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install.packages("foreign")
install.packages("MASS")
install.packages("igraph")
install.packages("sna")


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# ----- load packages ----- #
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library(foreign)
library(graph)


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# ----- load data ----- #
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data <- read.csv("http://polisci2.ucsd.edu/cfariss/code/macro.csv")

# note that you can also download the data and load it from your working directory (you need to "un-comment" the line below for it to function)
#data <- read.csv("macro.csv")

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