This recipe will prepare the groundwork with the tools you need to complete this project. If you do not have R installed on your computer, please see the instructions in Chapter 1, Preparing Your Data Science Environment.
Preparing for analysis
Getting ready
You need a computer with R installed and an internet connection.
How to do it...
The following steps will get you prepared for the remainder of this chapter by downloading the dataset from the BLS website and ensuring that we have the needed R packages:
- Download the 76.8 MB compressed data from http://www.bls.gov...