Upcoming Tutorial: Analyzing US Census Data in R
Today I am pleased to announce that on May 21 I will run a tutorial titled Analyzing US Census Data in R. While I have spoken at conferences before, this is my first time running a tutorial. My hope is that everyone who participates will learn something interesting about the demographics of the state, county […]
choroplethr v3.1.0: Better Summary Demographic Data
Today I am happy to announce that choroplethr v3.1.0 is now on CRAN. You can get it by typing the following from an R console: install.packages(“choroplethr”) This version adds better support for summary demographic data for each state and county in the US. The data is in two data.frames and two functions. The data.frames are: […]
choroplethrZip v1.3.0: easier demographics, national maps
Introduction choroplethr v3.0 is now available on github. You can get it by typing # install.packages(“devtools”) library(devtools) install_github(‘arilamstein/[email protected]’) Version 1.3.0 has two new features: Data frame df_zip_demographics contains eight demographic statistics about each ZIP Code Tabulated Area (ZCTA) in the US. Data comes from the 2013 5-year American Community Survey (ACS). Function ?get_zip_demographics will return […]
choroplethr v3.0.0 is now on CRAN
Today I am happy to announce that version 3.0.0 of my R mapping package choroplethr is now available from CRAN. To get it, you can simply type: install.packages(“choroplethr”) from an R console. If you don’t know what any of this means then I recommend taking Coursera’s excellent R Programming class :) The most notable change in […]