This is the repository to solve the first assignment in the MPP-E1180: Introduction to Collaborative Social Science Data Analysis course of the fall semester 2016. It is authored by Alex and Torben. Any feedback, comments, and ideas are highly appreciated. Please send them to Torben or Alex or submit a pull request.
The repository contains R scripts for getting and cleaning the data (getData.R), a script for the plots (stats+Graphics.R) and a separate rmd script to analyse/present the data (Assignment1.rmd). The pdf version of the final document in this repository should be treated with care as it might not contain the latest changes made in the scripts.
The first assignment reads as follows:
The first pair assignment is designed to develop your understanding of file structures, version control, and basic R data structures and descriptive statistics. Each pair will create a new public GitHub repository. The repository should be fully documented, including with a descriptive README.md file. The repository will include R source code files that access at least two data sets from the R core data sets and/or fivethirtyeight, perform basic transformations on the data, and illustrate the datas' distributions using a variety relevant of descriptive statistics. At least one file must dynamically link to another in a substantively meaningful way. Finally, another pair must make a pull request and it should be discussed and merged. Deadline 7 October, 10% of final grade.