geostatsp (version 0.4.4)

murder: Murder locations

Description

Locations of murders in Toronto 2005-2010

Usage

data(murder)

format

murder is a SpatialPoints object of murder locations. torontoPdens, torontoIncome, and torontoNight are rasters containing population density (per hectare), median household income, and ambient light respectively.

source

www3.thestar.com/static/googlemaps/homicidemap.html

Examples

data(murder)
plot(torontoIncome)
points(murder, col="#0000FF40", cex=0.5)

library(XML)
murder = xmlTreeParse("http://www3.thestar.com/static/googlemaps/homicides.xml" )
murder = as.data.frame(t(xmlSApply(murder, function(qq) as.numeric(xmlAttrs(qq[["point"]])))))
names(murder) = c("long","lat")
murder= na.omit(murder)
murder = SpatialPoints(murder, proj4string = CRS("+init=epsg:4326"))