SuffolkEcon is an experimental R package for the Department of Economics at Suffolk University to help teach introductory concepts in statistics, econometrics and optimization.
Currently the package is only available on GitHub. To install it, first install the remotes package:
install.packages('remotes')
Then you can install SuffolkEcon:
remotes::install_github('SuffolkEcon/SuffolkEcon')
and load it in an R script or an R notebook in the usual way:
library(SuffolkEcon)
The package is not meant to substitute for other packages in the R ecosystem that students will learn and use inside and outside of introductory courses.
Instead, SuffolkEcon aims to make a more marginal contribution to teaching basic concepts and reducing handoff frictions between classes by providing some one-line routines to do things like:
In the spirit of fitting into the greater package network, SuffolkEcon is built with tidyverse principles and is meant to be loaded alongside the tidyverse (SuffolkEcon imports dplyr, ggplot, stringr and rlang). All SuffolkEcon functions return either data.frame or ggplot objects.
This package is very much a work in progress, so contributions and bug reports are welcome. Drop us a line at ldegeest [at] suffolk [dot] edu, or report a bug on GitHub.
This package was funded by a grant from the Center for Teaching and Scholarly Excellence at Suffolk University.