Start by creating a folder dedicated to our module. On your computer go to My Documents and create a new folder entitled POLXXXX (XXXX indicates the code of our module). Go back to SurreyLearn and download the dataset in the folder. Go back to RStudio, create a new script file, name it Lab1.R.
The first two lines of your script file should include the following three lines.
rm(list = ls()) # This command will clean your workspace
setwd("~/POLXXXX") # This command will tell RStudio to read and save files at the folder POLXXXX
load("EVS_UK.RData")
We can now start exploring our data. We can look the names of our variables with the names() function.
names(EVS_UK)
To see how our dataset looks like we can use the head() function
head(EVS_UK)
Let’s explore what people think about democracy
boxplot(EVS_UK$v137, main= "Attitudes towards democracy",
ylab= "Agree/Disagree")