uiucdata: An R Data Package for UIUC Data

The goal of uiucdata is to provide data sets available at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) to a diverse group of individuals with a low barrier for entry.

Installation

You can install uiucdata from github with:

# install.packages("remotes")
remotes::install_github("coatless-rpkg/uiucdata")

Example

There are two ways to access the data contained within this package.

The first is to load the package itself and type the name of a data set. This approach takes advantage of R’s lazy loading mechansim, which avoids loading the data until it is used in R session. For details on how lazy loading works, please see Section 1.17: Lazy Loading of the R Internals manual.

# Load the `uiucdata` package
library("uiucdata")

# See the first 10 observations of the `fall_enrolled_ranking` dataset
head(fall_enrolled_ranking)

# View the help documentation for `fall_enrolled_ranking`
?fall_enrolled_ranking

The second approach is to use the data() command to load data on the fly without and type the name of a data set.

# Loading `fall_enrolled_ranking` without a `library(ucidata)` call
data("fall_enrolled_ranking", package = "uiucdata")

# See the first 10 observations of the `fall_enrolled_ranking` dataset
head(fall_enrolled_ranking)

# View the help documentation for `fall_enrolled_ranking`
?fall_enrolled_ranking

Included Data Sets

The following data sets are included in the ucidata package:

• Division of Management Information
  • Student Enrollment by Curriculum and Class Level
• Freedom of Information Data Sets
  • Grade Distribution Data
• Center for Innovation in Teaching and Learning (CITL)
  • Teachers Ranked as Excellent (Data courtesy of Wade-Fagen, see the project repo for more details)

Build Scripts

Want to see how each data set was imported? Check out the data-raw folder!

Submodules

This repository uses submodules as a way to store data. This allows for us to have the repositories contents as the final data product. As a result, we avoid increase the size of the repository since the raw data is now tracked in a separate repository. For more details, please see GitHub’s Working with Submodules post.

Example submodule inclusion statement

# Add Excellent Teacher Data in data-raw
git submodule add https://github.com/wadefagen/Teachers-Ranked-As-Excellent-UIUC data-raw/excellent-teachers

NB This repository is made by an employee of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign who is not the author of this data package.

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Raw grade data

git submodule add https://github.com/coatless-rpkg/uiucgradedata data-raw/grade-dist