Name: historydata
Owner: rOpenSci
Description: Datasets for Historians
Created: 2014-09-22 01:53:44.0
Updated: 2018-01-07 20:25:01.0
Pushed: 2017-08-24 02:49:15.0
Size: 4691
Language: R
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These sample data sets are intended for historians learning R. They include population, institutional, religious, military, and prosopographical data suitable for mapping, quantitative analysis, and network analysis.
To install the package from CRAN:
install.packages("historydata")
To install the development version, you will first have to install devtools and then install this package from GitHub.
To install:
devtools::install_github("ropensci/historydata")
To list all the datasets in the package with their documentation:
library(historydata)
help(package = historydata)
To load a dataset:
data(catholic_dioceses)
If you have a dataset that you think would be good for this package, feel free to contribute it. You can send the dataset via e-mail if you can provide a citation and guarantee that the data is available under an open license.
But it is much preferred that you contribute the dataset via a pull request. To add a dataset:
data-raw/
. The .rda
file should be saved to data/
.
See data-raw/sarna.R
as a model. Please try keeping the data
tidy.R/
. Use R/sarna.R
as a model. Be sure to include a citation.This project is released under the MIT License: http://lmullen.mit-license.org/