pdxTrees
is a data package composed of information on inventoried
trees in Portland, OR. There are two datasets that can be accessed with
this package:
get_pdxTrees_parks()
pulls in data on up to 25,534 trees from 174
Portland parks.
get_pdxTrees_streets()
pulls in data on up to 218,602 trees
located on Portland’s streets. A street tree is loosely defined as a
tree generally in the public right-of-way, usually between the
sidewalk and the street.
The street trees are categorized by one of the 96 Portland neighborhoods and the park trees are categorized by the public parks in which they grow.
These data were collected by the Portland Parks and Recreation’s Urban Forestry Tree Inventory Project. The Tree Inventory Project has gathered data on Portland trees since 2010, collecting this data in the summer months with a team of over 1,300 volunteers and city employees. The streets trees were inventoried from 2010 to 2016, and the park trees were inventoried from 2017 to 2019. More information on the data can be found here.
# Do the following once
# install.packages("devtools")
# Then install the package
devtools::install_github("mcconvil/pdxTrees")
pdxTrees
was updated in July of 2020 to contain two data loading
functions, get_pdxTrees_parks()
and get_pdxTrees_streets()
, to pull
the park and street tree data, respectively, from the Github repository.
# Load the library
library(pdxTrees)
# To get data on all parks
pdxTrees_parks <- get_pdxTrees_parks()
# To get data on one park
berkeley_park <- get_pdxTrees_parks(park = "Berkeley Park")
# To get data on multiple parks
parks <- get_pdxTrees_parks(park = c("Berkeley Park",
"East Delta Park"))
# The streets function works the same way but with neighborhoods!
pdxTrees_streets <- get_pdxTrees_streets()
# One neighborhood
concordia <- get_pdxTrees_streets(neighborhood = "Concordia")
# Mutliple neighborhoods!
neighborhoods <- get_pdxTrees_streets(neighborhood = c("Concordia",
"Eastmoreland",
"Sunnyside"))
pdxTrees
pdxTrees
is used in multiple Reed College statistics
courses as a tool to help
students develop their data analysis skills in
RStudio. In Introduction to Probability and
Statistics, students wrangle pdxTrees
data with dplyr
, and create
graphs of pdxTrees
with ggplot2
. In the Data Science
course, the package is
used to teach best practices of function writing, to construct
interactive maps with leaflet
, and to showcase the usefulness of
lubridate
, along with many other R packages.
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