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## Calculating the Big Mac index

The code to calculate the index is provided as a [Jupyter Notebook][jupyter]. The code itself is written in R, a programming language designed for data manipulation and statistics. You can view the [notebook][notebook link] on github.
The code to calculate the index is provided as a [Jupyter Notebook][jupyter]. The code itself is written in R, a programming language designed for data manipulation and statistics. You can view the [notebook][notebook link] on github, or run it with [Binder](https://mybinder.org/v2/gh/TheEconomist/big-mac-data/master?filepath=Big%20Mac%20data%20generator.ipynb).

If you want to run the notebook, you’ll need to set up a few things:

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> install.packages(c('tidyverse','data.table'))
```

or

```
> source('install.R')
```

You’re all set.

### Start the notebook
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to calculate the index files. (The R script may generate numbers that are different at the last decimal place to those from the Python notebook—these differences are due to rounding errors and can be safely ignored.)

### Run online

The notebooks can also be run online, with no install, using [Binder](https://mybinder.org/).

Jupyter+R: [![Binder](http://mybinder.org/badge.svg)](http://beta.mybinder.org/v2/gh/TheEconomist/big-mac-data/master)

RStudio: [![Binder](http://mybinder.org/badge.svg)](http://beta.mybinder.org/v2/gh/TheEconomist/big-mac-data/master?urlpath=rstudio)

### Licence

This software is published by _[The Economist](https://www.economist.com)_ under the [MIT licence](https://opensource.org/licenses/MIT). The data generated by _The Economist_ are available under the [Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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install.packages("tidyverse")
install.packages("data.table")
install.packages("r2excel")
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