README.md

floridainmates

This package provides access to a data set collected from the Florida Department of Corrections describing the state's inmate population. Details on the current release are available here.

Install

devtools::install_github("madams1/floridainmates")
devtools::install_github("ropenscilabs/datastorr")

Get and load the data

inmate_data <- floridainmates::floridainmates() # downloads/loads data

Data collection

Uses rvest to scrape data on each individual inmate, and parallel::mclapply to scrape inmate pages in parallel.

Most of the specifics can be found in get_inmate_data.R and R/get_data_functions.R.



madams1/floridainmates documentation built on May 21, 2019, 10:52 a.m.