createTitanic: Create Titanic survival dataset

In jkrijthe/createdatasets: Download and preprocess common benchmark dataset for use in reproduceable simulation studies

Description

From source: "The titanic and titanic2 data frames describe the survival status of individual passengers on the Titanic. The titanic data frame does not contain information from the crew, but it does contain actual ages of half of the passengers. The principal source for data about Titanic passengers is the Encyclopedia Titanica. The datasets used here were begun by a variety of researchers. One of the original sources is Eaton & Haas (1994) Titanic: Triumph and Tragedy, Patrick Stephens Ltd, which includes a passenger list created by many researchers and edited by Michael A. Findlay."

Usage

createTitanic(file = getfilepath("titanic.rds"), write = TRUE,
  read = TRUE)

Arguments

file	character; path/filename to write data file to
write	logical; should the dataset be written to disk for later use? (default: TRUE)
read	logical; should we try to read the dataset from the specified location first? (default: TRUE)

Details

Task: formula(survived ~ . -name) # This includes life-boat information

Value

The dataset as a data.table

See Also

http://lib.stat.cmu.edu/S/Harrell/data/descriptions/titanic.html

jkrijthe/createdatasets documentation built on May 19, 2019, 12:44 p.m.