This package constitutes an interactive R problem set based on the RTutor package (https://github.com/skranz/RTutor).
The problem set is based on the paper The Economic Impacts of COVID-19: Evidence from a New Public Database Built Using Private Sector Data from Chetty et al.(2020).
Link to the paper: https://opportunityinsights.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/tracker_paper.pdf
In this problem set, various analyses are carried out to examine the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the economy. The areas of consumer spending, small business revenues and employment are studied in more detail. In addition, the impact of government measures is partly investigated.
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("alexaehle/RTutorEconomicImpactsofCOVID19")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(RTutorEconomicImpactsofCOVID19)
# Adapt your working directory to an existing folder
setwd("C:/problemsets/RTutorEconomicImpactsofCOVID19")
# Adapt your user name
run.ps(user.name="Jon Doe", package="RTutorEconomicImpactsofCOVID19",
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.