Author data from the Milestones Project — authors • milestoneR

Retrieve the author table containing information about authors associated with milestone events in the history of data visualization.

Usage

authors()

Format

A data frame. See authors() for details.

Source

https://datavis.ca/milestones/

Value

A data frame with 290 rows and 15 variables:

aid: author id, a numeric vector
prefix: name prefix, a character vector
givennames: given names, a character vector
lname: last name, a character vector
suffix: name suffix, a character vector
lived: years lived, a character vector
birthdate: birth date, a Date vector
birthplace: place of birth, a character vector
birthlat: latitude of birthplace, a numeric vector
birthlong: longitude of birthplace, a numeric vector
deathdate: death date, a Date vector
deathplace: place of death, a character vector
deathlat: latitude of deathplace, a numeric vector
deathlong: longitude of deathplace, a numeric vector
note: notes about this author, a character vector

Examples

if (FALSE) { # \dontrun{
# Get all authors
aut <- authors()

# Filter by birth location
library(dplyr)
aut |> filter(!is.na(birthplace))
} # }