This R package contains the raw data and processing scripts used for the article: Matthew Lincoln and Abram Fox, "The Temporal Dimensions of the London Art Auction, 1780-1835", British Art Studies no. 4, (Fall 2016).
This data package is archived wtih Zenodo:
Required software: R, freely available at https://www.r-project.org/
Optional software: RStudio, an integrated development environment, free for individual use at https://www.rstudio.com/
To install this package from GitHub, run the following code in an R session:
install.packages(devtools)
devtools::install_github("mdlincoln/londonauctions")
If you have downloaded this package as a .tar.gz file (i.e. if you accessed a specific version from Zenodo), open an R session inside the unzipped package directory and run the following code:
install.packages(devtools)
devtools::install(dependencies = TRUE)
inst/extdata contains the original data files from the Getty Research Institute, as well as the Royal Academiy Dates as transcribed from correspondece with Mark Pomeroy.
vignettes/cleaning_data.Rmd contains documented code for reading these original data files and parsing them into R data frames made available in the data directory.
Docuemntation of any of these data frames can be opened by using, e.g., ?sales.
A list of all data frames available in this package can be seen by calling ?londonauctions.
vignettes/data_analysis.Rmd contains all the code used to produce each of the plots and tables shown in the article.
When that code is run, it will save generated plots to inst/plots.
Corresponding author: Matthew Lincoln