Reading data, and a graph
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First, I import the data into R with the following command:
states <- read.table("C:/Data/states.txt", header=TRUE, sep = "\t")
Next I ‘attach’ the data frame with the following command:
attach (states)
OK, now that I’ve got my data into R, what can I do with it?
First, I’ll run some correlations and see what’s going on.
cor (read2children, publicedexp)
[1] 0.4211508
cor (hincome, publicedexp)
[1] 0.6547179
cor (read2children, hincome)
[1] 0.4094883
Let’s look at the data a different way, by using scatterplots to see the relationships.
plot is the R command for, well, plotting. It’s very powerful and you can do lots of things with it. First I’ll do a very simple scatterplot of education expenditures and children read to.
plot (publicedexp, read2children)
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