R for Political Data Science: A Practical Guide is a handbook for political scientists new to R who want to learn the most useful and common ways to interpret and analyze political data. It was written by political scientists thinking about the many real-world problems faced in their work. The book has 16 chapters and is organized in three sections. The first on the use of R is for those users who are learning R or are migrating from another software. The second section on econometric models cov