[R] FBI Homicide data?

spencerg
Mon, 15 Jun 2009 01:11:47 -0000

Hi, Mario:


      The following suggest to me that these data may not be available
in any contributed R package:


library(RSiteSearch)
fbi <- RSiteSearch.function('FBI Homicide')
hits(fbi) # 0
hom <- RSiteSearch.function('Homicide')
hits(hom) # 4
HTML(hom)


      The 4 items exposed via the last line here seemed to be different
data sets from the one you described.  This searched all the help pages
for contributed packages.  I also searched for "FBI" with comparable
results.  If it exists in a contributed package, it is not easy to find.


      Have you tried writing to someone at the Institute for
Visualization and Perception Research at U Mass-Lowell?


      Hope this helps.
      Spencer

Mario Valle wrote:
> Dear all,
> do you know if it's available and where the "FBI Homicide"
dataset?
> It has at least the following columns: "victim age",
"homicide age".
> A scatterplot of this data is visible here:
>  http://www.uml.edu/gallery/main.php?g2_itemId=6016
>
> Thanks for your help!
> 				mario
>