Quantitative Methodology: Drawing plots
Autumn 2026
Overarching goal
As part of the home assignments for the course Quantitative Methodology, you’ll learn how to use R to draw informative graphs of data. This is a useful skill in its own right, but it should also help smoothe the learning curve if you ever decide to take a course in quantitative data analysis that uses R.
On the next page, you’ll find some tips to help you get most out of these graphing assignments.