The City of Chicago is releasing selected datasets from the data portal under the MIT License (see below). This repository contains:

1. Data in a comma separated values (CSV) format.
2. Examples of importing data into R.

The data was released as a CSV file. Below are some simple instructions which will show you how to load CSV in R.

Find an example script here. This example will import the data in R and create a couple of maps.

Instructions:

1. Set the working directory to the location of the downloaded repository.

   setwd("path\\to\\folder")

2. Import data:

   bike.racks <- read.csv("data\\Bike_Racks.csv")

3. Review the new dataframe:

   head(bike.racks)

4. Ensure the map works:

   plot(bikes.racks$Longitude, bike.racks$Latitude)

Here is the output you should expect from the plot() command:

This data is released under the MIT License. See LICENSE.txt.