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Section 6: Applying R to Political Science

Descriptive statistics can be the most informative form of analysis that can be done with Political Science. For this section will will be downloading the descriptive statistics package called descr from the CRAN mirror. This makes it easier to plot frequency distributions and graphs.

Mathmatical Operations and Vectors

NOTE: Variable names are case sensitive in R, so it is very important to understand that X is not the same as x and Y isn't the same as y.