Group assignment #3 (due Sep 13, 6pm)

[joachim-gassen]

Dear all:

Here comes our third assignment. We want to explore the differences between the Orbis universe of German firms and the firms that filed for Insolvency in July and August. For that, limit the insolvency sample to the firms that filed for insolvency (subject == “Eröffnungen“) and merge these firms algorithmically (no hand-matching please) to the firms in the Orbis universe. Define a set of informative variables and compare the insolvent firms with the others. Prepare a document containing your analysis in reproducible form (an RMarkdown file, perhaps?). Please try to submit your solution as a “pull request” to my main repository. Use the directory group_work for that purpose. Groups that manage to submit a pull request containing code that I can run without modifications to reproduce the analysis will receive extra credit. Some links to help you on the way:

• Introduction to RMarkdown: https://rmarkdown.rstudio.com/articles_intro.html
• How to create a pull request: https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-create-a-pull-request-on-github

If anything is unclear use this issue to ask for help or discuss. Thanks!

[olga-grzybek]

Joachim, should we limit the sample to the firms that filed for insolvency in August and September (as above) or in July and August...?

[joachim-gassen]

Thanks! Stupid me. July and August of course. This is what you have data for. I will fix it in the text above.

[MartinaVHBprodok]

Joachim, we are currently working on the code and the markdown-file- nearly ready, but still struggeling with the workingpath for the ORBIS data. The access is still via Olga's local computer. Unfortunately we have no idea how we can create a set-up where "all" can run our script. We need some help please!

[joachim-gassen]

The idea is to always use local paths. Normally, one would use a path relative to the root of the project directory. RMarkdown, however, normally relies on paths being relative to the location of the RMarkdown file. If you all store the Orbis file at the same location relative to the RMarkdown file, it should work. Assuming that the data is stored in raw_data and the RMarkdown file in group_work the path then should be "../raw_data/orbis_wrds_de.csv.gz". Does that help?

[sagraolg]

yes it works, thank you :)

[sagraolg]

Joachim, I want to pull the request with our rmarkdown file, but I also have made some another changes in my reposity earlier.... Actually I want to commit only the last one :) but I don't understand how to submit only the code...