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Installing necessary packages

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Installing necessary packages

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- [Instructor] We are almost done getting ready for our analysis. In this section we'll install the packages you'll need in R to complete our descriptive analysis. Earlier in the section I walked you through installing the package foreign, which we will use to read in our data. We still need to install a few more packages to get through the whole course so we'll do that now. Before we go to R I just want to give you a big picture look of what we are going to install. First, note that the package names are case sensitive. The last one is not lower case mass, it's MASS, all caps. Next, you have to see on the right side of the slide why we need the package and what it does. We'll be calling up these packages in different chapters throughout the course, so this is just a quick overview. Okay let's go install our packages. We just installed foreign so we can skip that, let's go to the next one, gtools. Let's make sure we click on the console so we have the right menus then choose packages,…

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