R Dataset / Package HistData / Prostitutes
On this R-data statistics page, you will find information about the Prostitutes data set which pertains to Parent-Duchatelet's time-series data on the number of prostitutes in Paris. The Prostitutes data set is found in the HistData R package. You can load the Prostitutes data set in R by issuing the following command at the console data("Prostitutes"). This will load the data into a variable called Prostitutes. If R says the Prostitutes data set is not found, you can try installing the package by issuing this command install.packages("HistData") and then attempt to reload the data with the library() command. If you need to download R, you can go to the R project website. You can download a CSV (comma separated values) version of the Prostitutes R data set. The size of this file is about 15,129 bytes.
Parent-Duchatelet's time-series data on the number of prostitutes in Paris
Description
A table indicating month by month, for the years 1812-1854, the number of prostitutes on the registers of the administration of the city of Paris.
Usage
data(Prostitutes)
Format
A data frame with 516 observations on the following 5 variables.
Year
-
a numeric vector
month
-
a factor with levels
Apr
Aug
Dec
Feb
Jan
Jul
Jun
Mar
May
Nov
Oct
Sep
count
-
a numeric vector: number of prostitutes
mon
-
a numeric vector: numeric month
date
-
a Date
Details
The data table was digitally scanned with OCR, and errors were corrected by comparing the yearly totals recorded in the table to the row sums of the scanned data.
Source
Parent-Duchatelet, A. (1857), De la prostitution dans la ville de Paris, 3rd ed, p. 32, 36
Examples
data(Prostitutes) ## maybe str(Prostitutes) ; plot(Prostitutes) ...
Dataset imported from https://www.r-project.org.