afcon {GeoXp}R Documentation

Spatial patterns of conflict in Africa 1966-78

Description

The afcon data frame has 42 rows and 5 columns, for 42 African countries, exclusing then South West Africa and Spanish Equatorial Africa and Spanish Sahara. The dataset is used in Anselin (1995), and downloaded from before adaptation.

Usage

data(afcon)

Format

A data frame with 42 observations on the following 5 variables.

x
an easting in decimal degrees (taken as centroïd of shapefile polygon)
y
a northing in decimal degrees (taken as centroïd of shapefile polygon)
totcon
index of total conflict 1966-78
name
country name
id
country id number as in paper

Details

This data provides from spdep package.

Note

This data file prepared by Luc Anselin, Spatial Analysis Laboratory, Department of Agriculture and Consumer Economics, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.

Source

Anselin, L. and John O'Loughlin (1992), ``Geography of international conflict and cooperation: spatial dependence and regional context in Africa''. In The New Geopolitics, ed. M. Ward, pp.39-75.

Anselin, L. (1995), ``Local indicators of spatial association''. In Geographical Analysis, 27, Table 1, p.103.

Examples

data(afcon)

[Package GeoXp version 1.0 Index]