SnowData

Historical Data from John Snow's 1854 Cholera Outbreak Map

v1.0.0 · Mar 15, 2025 · GPL-3

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Provides historical datasets related to John Snow's 1854 cholera outbreak study in London. Includes data on cholera cases, water pump locations, and the street layout, enabling analysis and visualisation of the outbreak.

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OK 13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE Jun 1, 2026

ERROR 12 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 1 ERROR · 0 FAILURE May 30, 2026

ERROR r-release-windows-x86_64

examples

Running examples in 'SnowData-Ex.R' failed
The error most likely occurred in:

> ### Name: load_map
> ### Title: Load TIF File of John Snow's 1854 Map
> ### Aliases: load_map
> 
> ### ** Examples
> 
> tif <- load_map()
trying URL 'https://raw.githubu
...[truncated]...
out of 60 seconds was reached
Error in utils::download.file(url, zipfile, mode = "wb") : 
  cannot open URL 'https://raw.githubusercontent.com/niamhmimnagh/JohnSnowCholera/main/Snow-cholera-map.tif.zip'
Calls: load_map -> <Anonymous>
Execution halted

OK 14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE Apr 10, 2026

ERROR 13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 1 ERROR · 0 FAILURE Apr 9, 2026

ERROR r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-gcc

examples

Running examples in ‘SnowData-Ex.R’ failed
The error most likely occurred in:

> base::assign(".ptime", proc.time(), pos = "CheckExEnv")
> ### Name: load_map
> ### Title: Load TIF File of John Snow's 1854 Map
> ### Aliases: load_map
> 
> ### ** Examp
...[truncated]...
f 60 seconds was reached
Error in utils::download.file(url, zipfile, mode = "wb") : 
  download from 'https://raw.githubusercontent.com/niamhmimnagh/JohnSnowCholera/main/Snow-cholera-map.tif.zip' failed
Calls: load_map -> <Anonymous>
Execution halted

OK 14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE Mar 10, 2026

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new 1.0.0 Mar 10, 2026

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