[R] Measurements of 3000 criminals

[Jean lobry]

>  Hallo everyone,
>
>  excuse me if this is not a genuine R question but I do not know where to
>  ask else.
>
>  Referring  to e.g.
>
>  https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-help/2004-December/062114.html
>
>  I wonder if these measurements of 3000 criminals (raw data) are
>  available anywhere.  At least I didn't find them in the R datasets
>  package or by means of Google.  What I did find was a table of
>  frequencies of the central values for *grouped* classifications (finger
>  lenghts) in the Handbook of Small Data Sets.
>
>  Thank you in advance.
>
>  D. Trenkler

Dietrich,

I'm not sure, but this is perhaps what you want:

crim <- read.table("http://pbil.univ-lyon1.fr/R/donnees/criminals1902.txt")

For some R code playing with this dataset, open this (draft) document:

http://pbil.univ-lyon1.fr/members/lobry/R/convergencet.pdf

and jump to section 4.

HTH,

Jean
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