Some R functions for scraping and compiling Hampton Roads crime data from the HRVA-Crime-Data repo. Currently, only Newport News crime data is available.
The runDataCollection function returns a data frame containing all the crime data pulled from the repo, sorted by date. You can then repurpose this data frame however you want.
The saveDataCollection function is a utility for collecting the crime data and saving it to a .CSV file for use as a complete data set.