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Coursera Mastering Software Development in R Specialization Capstone

This project is the capstone project for the Coursera Specialization Mastering Software Development in R, offered by The Johns Hopkins University.

For more information on the specialization, you can view the overview page on Coursera at: https://www.coursera.org/specializations/r

The Project

In this project, we're building an R package with tools to assist in analyzing historical earthquake data provided by the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).

The Data

The NOAA Significant Earthquake Database[1] contains information on destructive earthquakes from 2150 B.C. to the present that meet at least one of the following criteria: Moderate damage (approximately $1 million or more), 10 or more deaths, Magnitude 7.5 or greater, Modified Mercalli Intensity X or greater, or the earthquake generated a tsunami.

The full database can be downloaded as a tab-delimited text file, and variable definitions are available online also.

[1] National Geophysical Data Center / World Data Service (NGDC/WDS): Significant Earthquake Database. National Geophysical Data Center, NOAA. doi:10.7289/V5TD9V7K

The Package

The tools we're building include facilities for:

• data loading and cleaning
• timeline plots of earthquakes
• maps of earthquakes

The Goals

The goals of the capstone are to demonstrate understanding of and ability to use R's capabilities to build a reusable, sharable package, including:

• package structure
• revision control
• continuous integration
• data provisioning and preparation
• custom visualization tools
• package namespace and exported functions
• package testing and CRAN checks
• documentation tools (function help and vignettes)

nihonjinrxs/earthquakes documentation built on May 27, 2019, 1:45 p.m.