README.md

In mnacamura/wnai: Western North American Indian Dataset

wnai — R package of the WNAI ethnographic dataset

The Western North American Indian dataset compiled by Jorgensen (1980, 1999), extracted from the D-PLACE data repository.

This package is based on dplace-data, version v2.0.1.

For details of error corrections made in dplace-data v2.0.1 and made in this package since dplace-data v2.0.1, see NOTES.md.

Installation

You can install the development version of wnai from GitHub with:

devtools::install_github("mnacamura/wnai")

Data description

wnai::societies

• Source: https://github.com/D-PLACE/dplace-data/tree/v2.0.1/datasets/WNAI/societies.csv
• Only the following columns are selected (and renamed).

| Column name | Original column name in D-PLACE | Description | | ------------ | ------------------------------- | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | id | id | D-PLACE-wide id for the society | | name | pref_name_for_society | name of the society | | alt_names | alt_names_by_society | alternative names of the society | | glottocode | glottocode | code for the most specific Glottolog languoid which can be assigned to this society | | latitude | Lat | location of the society in latitude | | longitude | Long | location of the society in longitude |

wnai::variables

• Source: https://github.com/D-PLACE/dplace-data/tree/v2.0.1/datasets/WNAI/variables.csv
• Only the following columns are selected (and renamed).

| Column name | Original column name in D-PLACE | Description | | ------------- | ------------------------------- | --------------------------------------------------------------- | | id | id | D-PLACE-wide id for the variable | | name | title | name of the variable | | type | type | type of the variable: categorical, ordinal, or continuous | | categories | category | categories assigned to the variable (comma separated) | | definitions | definition | definitions of terms used in the name column |

wnai::codes

• Source: https://github.com/D-PLACE/dplace-data/tree/v2.0.1/datasets/WNAI/codes.csv
• This is a nested data frame for each variable's codes.
• Only the following columns are selected (and renamed).

| Column name | Original column name in D-PLACE | Description | | ------------------- | ------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------ | | var_id | var_id | D-PLACE-wide id for the variable | | codes | | a data frame of codes used in the variable | | codes.code | code | code in the variable | | codes.name | name | short description of the code | | codes.description | description | longer description of the code |

wnai::data

• Source: https://github.com/D-PLACE/dplace-data/tree/v2.0.1/datasets/WNAI/data.csv
• Transshaped the original data to a matrix form of societies x variables.
• Only the following columns are selected (and renamed).

| Column name | Original column name in D-PLACE | Description | | ------------------- | ------------------------------- | --------------------------------------- | | soc_id | soc_id | D-PLACE-wide id for the society | | WNAI8..WNAI438 | | values of 429 variables for the society |

References

1. Jorgensen, J. G. (1980) Western Indians: Comparative Environments, Languages and Cultures of 172 Western American Indian Tribes. W. H. Freeman.
2. Jorgensen, J. G. (1999) Codebook for Western Indians data. World Cultures 10: 144–293.
3. Kirby, K. R., Gray, R. D., Greenhill, S. J., Jordan, F. M., Gomes-Ng, S., Bibiko, H.-J., Blasi, D. E., Botero, C. A., Bowern, C., Ember, C. R., Leehr, D., Low, B. S., McCarter, J., Divale, W., Gavin, M. C. (2018) D-PLACE/dplace-data: D-PLACE – the Database of Places, Language, Culture and Environment (Version v2.0.1) [Data set]. Zenodo. http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1466634.

mnacamura/wnai documentation built on July 9, 2020, 11:22 p.m.