Re: [R] Using R and the Tidyverse for an economic model

2018-03-28 Thread Jocelyn Ireson-Paine via R-help
Jeff, thanks for taking the time to read and comment. About the points you raise: 1) Packages. I do understand the advantages of packages. But I'm still prototyping, and it seemed too complicated to make every source file a separate package, when I'm still often moving source code from one to ano

Re: [R] Using R and the Tidyverse for an economic model

2018-03-27 Thread Jeff Newmiller
Looks like you have made an impressive start and some attractive introductions. I have no significant interest in your topic (sorry), but it seems that you are re-inventing the wheel a bit in regards to much of your documentation and modularization... R packages can help you solve these problem

[R] Using R and the Tidyverse for an economic model

2018-03-26 Thread Jocelyn Ireson-Paine via R-help
I've been translating an economic model from Python into R, and I thought members of the list would like to see a presentation I've written about it. I've blogged this at http://www.j-paine.org/blog/2018/03/r-taxben-a-microsimulation-economic-model-in-r.html , and the presentation itself is a slide