Cross-national analyses require additional controls to account for the non-independence of nations

This repository contains the data and R code for the manuscript "Cross-national analyses require additional controls to account for the non-independence of nations".

Getting Started

Cloning this repository

To clone this repository using Git, you will need to first install Git LFS to download large data files. Once Git LFS is installed, run:

git clone https://github.com/ScottClaessens/crossNationalCorrelations

Installing required packages

To run this code, you will need to install R and the following R packages:

install.packages(c("brms", "cowplot", "conleyreg", "countrycode", 
                   "dagitty", "geosphere", "ggcorrplot", "ggdag", "ggrepel", 
                   "ggtext", "haven", "lmtest", "papaja", "psych", "readxl", 
                   "rstan", "sf", "sjlabelled", "targets", "tarchetypes",
                   "tidybayes", "tidyverse"))

If you run into issues with the pipeline, try installing the specific R version or package versions outlined in sessionInfo.txt.

Executing code

1. Set the working directory to this code repository
2. Load the targets package with library(targets)
3. To run all analyses, run tar_make()
4. To load individual targets into your environment, run tar_load(targetName)

Help

Any issues, please email scott.claessens@gmail.com.

Authors

Scott Claessens, scott.claessens@gmail.com