Empirical Methods in Political Science: An Introduction

Bookdown project for Jean Clipperton's textbook. This is the source text for the Political Science 210 textbook: https://nulib-oer.github.io/empirical-methods-polisci/

Editing the Source

If you're new to Git and R Studio, here is nice introduction to using these tools together.

Wihtin R Studio, Click on File > New Project > Version Control > Git

Copy and Paste this in the Project URL field: https://github.com/nulib-oer/empirical-methods-polisci.git

This downloads a copy of the empirical-methods-polisci project folder and git history to your machine.

• Install the Bookdown R package from an R Studio R console (bookdown installation instructions): > install.packages('bookdown')

• If you reload your R studio session or double-click the empirical-methods-polisci.Rproj file, the interface will change to include some Bookdown buttons, like Build Book.

• You can now edit each individual chapter file and preview the changes locally with Bookdown.

• Steps three and four in this tutorial discuss committing changes to your local git repostory copy and pushing them back up to the GitHub version.

• Any updates to the main branch in GitHub will automatically trigger a new version of the website (takes a few minutes for the update to go live): https://nulib-oer.github.io/empirical-methods-polisci/

Resources

• Webinar Introducing Bookdown