UG Quantitative Methods in the Social Sciences: Lab workbook

A step-by-step guide for conducting quantitative research in R by Rafael Verudzco Torres and Dr. Mark Wong.

The online book is available: https://ugquants.github.io/quants_workbook/.

This workbook is for University of Glasgow students enrolled in the undergraduate Quantitative Methods in the Social Sciences course within the School of Social and Political Sciences. The activities are designed for RStudio Cloud.

Made with R and Quarto.

• Clone the repo: git clone https://github.com/UGQuants/quants_workbook.git && cd quants_workbook
• Install Quarto: https://quarto.org/docs/get-started/
• R packages used: install.packages(c("knitr", "rmarkdown", "tidyverse", "cowplot", "vtable", "moderndive", "downlit"))

Linting and styling

• Install: install.packages(c("lintr", "styler"))

Prose linting

• Tools: Vale and LTeX check prose.
• Config: .vale.ini with rules in styles/.
• Editors: Install extensions for nvim or VSCode/Positron to enable them.