-
Notifications
You must be signed in to change notification settings - Fork 22
/
Copy pathearly_colleges.Rd
55 lines (46 loc) · 1.48 KB
/
early_colleges.Rd
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
25
26
27
28
29
30
31
32
33
34
35
36
37
38
39
40
41
42
43
44
45
46
47
48
49
50
51
52
53
54
55
% Generated by roxygen2: do not edit by hand
% Please edit documentation in R/early-colleges.R
\docType{data}
\name{early_colleges}
\alias{early_colleges}
\title{Early colleges in the United States}
\format{
A data frame with 65 observations of 6 variables.
}
\usage{
early_colleges
}
\description{
This dataset contains information about the founding of colleges established
before 1848 in the United States of America.
}
\section{Variables}{
\itemize{
\item \code{college}: The name of the college or university.
\item \code{original_name}: The name under which the institution was
founded, if different.
\item \code{city}, \code{state}: The location of the institution.
\item \code{established}: The year that the institution was founded.
\item \code{sponsorship}: The sponsoring religious denomination, or
\code{secular} if not founded by a denomination.
}
}
\examples{
head(early_colleges)
if(require(ggplot2)) {
ggplot(early_colleges, aes(x = established)) + geom_bar(binwidth = 5) +
ggtitle("Founding Dates of Early American Colleges")
}
}
\references{
This data was transcribed by George Oberle from the table "Some
American Institutions of Higher Education Founded Before 1848, in Daniel
Walker Howe, \emph{What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America,
1815-1848} (New York: Oxford University Press, 2007), 460-461.
}
\author{
\href{https://library.gmu.edu/faculty/george-oberle}{George Oberle}, George
Mason University
Daniel Walker Howe
}
\keyword{datasets}