Made it up to school a little late today—got there about 10:15. I spent the morning reading and typing some notes. Also found an article for my stats replication paper, and managed to download and organize all of the data. I wasn't, however, able to get it imported into R. It's Central and Eastern Eurobarometer data (7 years, 65,000 observations), and is provided by ICPSR in SPSS and plain text formats. I was hoping to import the SPSS data so that I can avoid having to recreate the data mappings (several hundred variables---not fun). I finally found the memisc package, but it kept giving me an error:

> data <- spss.portable.file("06104-0001-Data.por")
Error in sub("^[[:space:]]+", "", res) : 
  input string 1 is invalid in this locale

It appears to be having problems a font included in the data file. My guess is it's one of the many East European characters it's not liking. I'll have to see if my system at home has the same problem.

Received our first problem sets for stats, began working on that in the evening, while Devon worked on a birthday cake for a co-worker.