This package constitutes an interactive R problem set based on the RTutor package (https://github.com/skranz/RTutor).

This problem set is based on the paper The Long-Term Effects of Communism in Eastern Europe by Fuchs-Schündeln & Schündeln (2020). The paper can be found at https://pubs.aeaweb.org/doi/pdfplus/10.1257/jep.34.2.172.

The aim of the problem set is to analyze the long term effects of communism with several indicators and preferences of people. It reproduces the main analysis in an interactive way and covers explanations of useful R commands and economic theory.

1. Installation

RTutor and this package is hosted on Github. To install everything, run the following code in your R console.

install.packages("RTutor",repos = c("https://skranz-repo.github.io/drat/",getOption("repos")))

if (!require(devtools))
  install.packages("devtools")

devtools::install_github("BenjaminMarkert/RTutorLongTermEffectsCommunism")

2. Show and work on the problem set

To start the problem set first create a working directory in which files like the data sets and your solution will be stored. Then adapt and run the following code.

library(RTutorLongTermEffectsCommunism)

# Adapt your working directory to an existing folder
setwd("C:/problemsets/RTutorLongTermEffectsCommunism")
# Adapt your user name
run.ps(user.name="Jon Doe", package="RTutorLongTermEffectsCommunism",
       auto.save.code=TRUE, clear.user=FALSE)

If everything works fine, a browser window should open, in which you can start exploring the problem set.