sboysel/murdock

R package containing Murdock's Ethnolinguistic Map (1959) and Ethnographic Atlas (1967) data for the African Continent # murdock G. P. Murdock's (1959) ethnolinguistic map for the African continent packaged for `R` as a `SpatialPolygonsDataFrame` object. Fortified with data from Murdock's *Ethnographic Atlas* (1967) linked to the Human Relations Area Files. This is simply a repackaging of the orignial dataset that can be attributed to George Murdock, Suzanne Blier, and Nathan Nunn. Preview the source spatial data. ## Usage Install from GitHub and load package with `library`. You will then be able to access the object `murdock`. The requirement `sp` is loaded automatically. ```r # devtools::install_github("sboysel/murdock") library(murdock) #> Loading murdock #> Loading required package: sp ``` ## Source From Harvard WorldMap > This dataset represents the George Murdock map of ethnographic regions for > Africa linked to the Human Relations Area Files database > housed at Yale University. With thanks to HRAF President, Carol R. Ember, Ph.D. > These data were published in the Ethnographic Atlas by George Murdoch which is > now available in the > Digital Editions collection > of the University of Pittsburg Press. With thanks to David Bauman of the > University of Pittsburg Press. Polygons for this map were digitized by Harvard > Professor Nathan Nunn, from "Tribal Map of Africa" a fold out map from the > book "Africa: Its peoples and Their Culture History" > by George Murdock, 1959. Coastlines from the > Digital Chart of the World > were used to replace the coastlines in the Murdock map. Harvard professor > Suzanne Blier, with the assistance of graduate student Julia Finkelstien added > attribute data from Human Area Relations Files (HRAF). CGA GIS scientist, Anna > Arzrumtsyan and Clark University M.A. Candidate in GIS, Jerome Chia-Rung Yang > carried out the symbolization working with Suzanne Blier and GIS scientist, > Ben Lewis of the Harvard Center for Geographic Analysis. * Data * Codebook ## TODO: - [ ] Clean and check object for errors - [ ] Document object - [x] R …