Estimated Crime in 2009 in USA
Crime totals and rates, cross-classified by US state, during 2009.
data(crime.us)
A data frame with 50 observations on the following 22 variables.
Statea character vector. White spaces have been replaced by underscores.
Populationa numeric vector
ViolentCrimeTotala numeric vector
Murdera numeric vector
Rapea numeric vector
Robberya numeric vector
Assaulta numeric vector
PropertyCrimeTotala numeric vector
Burglarya numeric vector
LarcenyThefta numeric vector
MotorVehicleThefta numeric vector
ViolentCrimeRatea numeric vector
MurderRatea numeric vector
RapeRatea numeric vector
RobberyRatea numeric vector
AssaultRatea numeric vector
PropertyCrimeRatea numeric vector
BurglaryRatea numeric vector
LarcenyTheftRatea numeric vector
MotorVehicleTheftRatea numeric vector
stateNumbera numeric vector, running from 1 to 50.
abbrevState name as a character vector
Each row is a state of the United States of America. The first half of the columns tend to be totals, and the second half are crime rates per 100,000 population.
The data frame was downloaded as a .csv file and edited.
The full column names are:
State, Population, Violent crime total, Murder and nonnegligent
Manslaughter, Forcible rape, Robbery, Aggravated assault, Property
crime total, Burglary, Larceny-theft, Motor vehicle theft, Violent
Crime rate, Murder and nonnegligent manslaughter rate, Forcible
rape rate, Robbery rate, Aggravated assault rate, Property crime
rate, Burglary rate, Larceny-theft rate, Motor vehicle theft rate,
state Number, abbreviation.
Technical details governing the data set are given in the URL.
http://www.ucrdatatool.gov,
http://www.ucrdatatool.gov/Search/Crime/State/RunCrimeOneYearofData.cfm
## Not run: # Louisiana is the one outlier
plot(MurderRate ~ stateNumber, crime.us,
axes = FALSE, type = "h", col = 1:6,
main = "USA murder rates in 2009 (per 100,000 population)")
axis(1, with(crime.us, abbrev), at = with(crime.us, stateNumber),
col = 1:6, col.tick = 1:6, cex.lab = 0.5)
axis(2)
## End(Not run)
tail(crime.us[ sort.list(with(crime.us, MurderRate)), ])Please choose more modern alternatives, such as Google Chrome or Mozilla Firefox.