In xuyiqing/panelView: Visualizing Panel Data

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panelView

Authors: Hongyu Mou (UCLA); Licheng Liu (MIT); Yiqing Xu (Stanford)

Date: Sep 24, 2023

Repos: Github (1.1.17) CRAN (1.1.17)

Examples: R code used in the tutorial can be downloaded from here.

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Description

panelView visualizes panel data. It has three main functionalities:

1. it plots treatment status and missing values in a panel dataset;
2. it plots the temporal dynamics of an outcome variable (or any variable) in a panel dataset;
3. it visualizes bivariate relationships of two variables by unit or in aggregate.

Installation

You can install the up-to-date development version from GitHub:

# if not already installed
install.packages('devtools', repos = 'http://cran.us.r-project.org') 

# note: "V" is capitalized
devtools::install_github('xuyiqing/panelView') 

You can also install the panelView package from CRAN:

install.packages('panelView') 

If you encounter an installation/execution error, please remove the old package and reinstall panelView.

remove.packages('panelView') 
# or
remove.packages('panelview') # package name "panelview" no longer in use

Tutorial & Paper

For example, plot treatment status in a panel dataset:

library(panelView)
data(panelView)
panelview(turnout ~ policy_edr + policy_mail_in + policy_motor, 
          data = turnout, index = c("abb","year"), 
          xlab = "Year", ylab = "State")

Note that "V" in the package name is capitalized while "v" in the function name is not---to be consistent with the Stata version.

See the tutorial page for more details.

For a paper version of the tutorial, see Mou, Liu & Xu (2023): "Panel Data Visualization in R (panelView) and Stata (panelview)."

Report bugs

Please report bugs to yiqingxu [at] stanford.edu with your sample code and data file. Much appreciated!

xuyiqing/panelView documentation built on Oct. 1, 2023, 3:58 a.m.