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Provides Access to Salem Witchcraft Data

v1.0.1 · Jan 14, 2026 · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

Description

Data related to the Salem Witch Trials Datasets and tutorials documenting the witch accusations and trials centered around Salem, Massachusetts in 1692. Originally assembled by Richard B. Latner of Tulane University for his website <https://www2.tulane.edu/~salem/index.html>. The data sets include information on 152 accused witches, members of the Salem Village Committee, signatories of petitions related to the events, and tax data for Salem Village.

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OK 13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE May 9, 2026
ERROR 12 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 1 ERROR · 0 FAILURE May 3, 2026
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analyses.Rmd' failed with diagnostics:
row names contain missing values
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SUMMARY: processing the following file failed:
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ERROR 13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 1 ERROR · 0 FAILURE Apr 15, 2026
ERROR r-devel-windows-x86_64

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--- re-building 'maps.Rmd' using rmarkdown
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--- finished re-building 'recreating_analyses.Rmd'

SUMMARY: processing the following file failed:
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Error: Vignette re-building failed.
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Code

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1,708

Files

89

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Language breakdown

R 273 (16%)Docs 414 (24.2%)Vignettes 1,021 (59.8%)

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Portability & License

Min R version

4.1.0

System requirements

C++ standard

License

CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

License flags

not SPDX, not OSI

History

Versions

2

First release

2020-11-05

Latest release

2026-01-14

Avg cadence

1896 days

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0

LOC over versions

v0.2.0: 1,172 LOCv1.0.1: 1,708 LOC

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Version History

3 tracked
new 1.0.1 Mar 10, 2026
updated 1.0.1 ← 0.2.0 diff Jan 13, 2026
new 0.2.0 Nov 4, 2020