Rural economy

Exploring economic dynamics in rural areas of the United States.

Installation

Follow these steps to begin working on this project.

1. Install Mamba, R, RStudio and Git.

2. Clone this repository with submodules.
   git clone --recurse-submodules [email protected]:antonbabkin/rurec.git

3. Use Mamba to create new Python environment from the spec file.
   mamba env create --file environment.yml
   This will download and install all necessary packages. The environment includes Jupyter Lab and Jupytext for working with notebooks.

4. From Jupyter, run code in the "Initialization" section of nbs/index.ipynb notebook. This will create symbolic links connecting submodules to the parent project. Notebooks are stored in .md format, for the first time, right click to open as Notebook.

5. In RStudio, open project and choose rurec.Rproj. Create a new renv environment and install R packages. Required packages are specified in the DESCRIPTION file.
   renv::init(bare = TRUE)
renv::install()