[R] FBI Homicide data?

[David Winsemius]

That graphic was created as part of a Ph D thesis in the mid 1990's. I  
sent the OP off-list a link to that work and the FBI webpage that  
describes access to such data.

-- 
David


On Jun 14, 2009, at 9:11 PM, spencerg wrote:

> Hi, Mario:
>
>     The following suggest to me that these data may not be available  
> in any contributed R package:
>
> library(RSiteSearch)
> fbi <- RSiteSearch.function('FBI Homicide')
> hits(fbi) # 0
> hom <- RSiteSearch.function('Homicide')
> hits(hom) # 4
> HTML(hom)
>
>
>     The 4 items exposed via the last line here seemed to be  
> different data sets from the one you described.  This searched all  
> the help pages for contributed packages.  I also searched for "FBI"  
> with comparable results.  If it exists in a contributed package, it  
> is not easy to find.
>
>     Have you tried writing to someone at the Institute for  
> Visualization and Perception Research at U Mass-Lowell?
>
>     Hope this helps.      Spencer
>
> Mario Valle wrote:
>> Dear all,
>> do you know if it's available and where the "FBI Homicide" dataset?
>> It has at least the following columns: "victim age", "homicide age".
>> A scatterplot of this data is visible here:
>> http://www.uml.edu/gallery/main.php?g2_itemId=6016
>>
>> Thanks for your help!
>> 				mario
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David Winsemius, MD
Heritage Laboratories
West Hartford, CT