srhen/mustangnews: Support for Mustang News Data Team

The purpose of the mustangnews package is to assist The Hill, the data journalism team at Mustang News (Cal Poly’s newspaper), in data collection and visualization. The data collection side contains functions that scrape the websites of the San Luis Obispo PD and Cal Poly University Police Departments and reformats the police activity/call logs into usable data frames. In addition there are functions that scrape other Cal Poly websites, such as the Greek Life Chapter Sanction page, and can compare them to old versions of the page so that the team can stay up to date. Many of the members of The Hill do not have experience with R, so the goal of the visualization functions is to simplify the process for them. In addition to a custom theme in the style of the Mustang News website, this package includes functions that simplify the creation of bar graphs and line charts. In hopes to support online stories as well as to print ones, this package also includes functions that can easily create interactive choropleths (colored maps) at both the state and county level.

install.packages("remotes")
remotes::install_github("srhen/mustangnews")