R training - 2018 Nov 29 - Data Visualization

[luizaandrade]

This is for suggestions or bugs found during the training

[kbjarkefur]

• Stata equivalence cheat sheet

Based on the question we got today on what is the R equivalence to the Stata command tabulate, I thought we should have a markdown sheet in this repo where we have a table like this that we can keep adding to:

Stata Command	R-equivalence	Note on how they differ
tabulate	table	To use two-way tab use this command (Do not if this is the case, this is just an example)
command_A	function_foo	In R you can also use this to change this
command_B	function_bar

[MRuzzante]

Suggestions

• Include Stata equivalent piece of code for scatter and box plots
• Add extra code to adapt margin of graph from boxplot (slide 15)
• Perhaps explain better the difference between the dataframe object whr and the ggplot2 object: you could show the objects directly in the Environment tab in R; this will also help review/apply the object-oriented nature of R
• Show how to change year format in p3_happyfree (i.e., remove decimals): it can also serve as an example on how to deal with format arguments

Typos

• Slide 41: take out Rwamangana 35
• Slide 56: the graph is not the right one

Overall comment
Very "fixe" session! :)

[luizaandrade]

some references about @kbjarkefur suggestion:
https://github.com/EconometricsBySimulation/RStata/wiki/Dictionary:-Stata-to-R
http://www.princeton.edu/~otorres/RStata.pdf

[MRuzzante]

Quite cool! :)