After the shooting in San Bernardino last week I wanted to explore some data on mass shootings in the US. I found a website called Shooting Tracker which has recorded mass shootings from 2013 to present. Each incident is cited by a news source, and is defined as having 4 or more victims, either killed or injured. You can take a look at my analysis here: US Mass Shootings
After contributing to the Rfacebook package, I realized there wasn’t a package to connect to the LinkedIn API and decided to create one.
The package can be found on CRAN here: Rlinkedin
Update: On May 12th 2015 LinkedIn changed the availability for most of their API endpoints. In order to gain full access to the API, you must apply to their Partnership Program. You can find detailed information regarding what endpoints are still openly available in their Transition Guide. This update basically wiped out almost all the functions of this package.