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title: "Using R for Educational Research"
author: "Jerry Bean, College of Education and Human Ecology, The Ohio State University"
date: "2021-04-08T20:16:33Z"
tags: [Education, Package, Data Analysis, R Markdown]
link: "https://bookdown.org/bean_jerry/using_r_for_educational_research/"
length_weight: "6.4%"
pinned: false
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This is an example of using the bookdown package to write a book [...] Our goal for this document is to illustrate the importance of good data analysis practices and how R and companion packages support these practices. We think the R system has many benefits for educational research. R has become the flagship computing environment for many areas of science and has great appeal because it is free and open-access. In addition, free tools like RStudio and R Markdown promote a replication commitment and open science philosophy important to our work. One particular strength of R is that it ...
