SSCC - Social Science Computing Cooperative Supporting Statistical Analysis for Research

0.3 Materials for this book

If you are working in R, we recommend creating an RStudio project for your work associated with this book. The following steps can be used to create this project.

  • Open RStudio.

  • From the file dropdown menu, select "New Project".

  • A New Project window will appear. Select the "New Directory" option.

  • A New Project window will appear. Select the " New Project" option.

  • The New Project window will display a Directory name text box. Enter DWE as the name of the project.

  • Use the browse button next to the Create Project as a sub-directory of text box to control where the project will be created. If you are on an SSCC computer, place the project somewhere on your U drive.

To open this project later, navigate to the project folder and click on the blue shaded cube with an R inside of it.

If you are working in Python, we recommend creating file folder for your work associated with this book. Name the folder DWE.

The supplemental materials for the book are available as a zip file from DWE material. Download this file to your computer. Then copy the folder within the zip file to the DWE folder that you just created. You are now ready to start work on the examples of this book.