Message-ID: <6ru2gf6jz3.fsf@franz.stat.wisc.edu>
Date: 2000-05-04T04:02:40Z
From: Douglas Bates
Subject: accessing Datasets
In-Reply-To: Faheem Mitha's message of "Wed, 3 May 2000 23:42:18 -0400 (EDT)"
Faheem Mitha <faheem at email.unc.edu> writes:
> Dear R people,
>
> This is probably a FAQ, and a silly question besides, but...
>
> a lot of R packages have datasets contained within them. cf. spatial has
> "topo". Once I have loded the appropriate library, how do I access the
> datasets contained within? I know this must be very simple, but I have
> spent some (fruitless, frustrated time) trying to do this, so am asking
> for help.
> library(spatial)
> data(topo) # make the topo data available
> summary(topo)
x y z
Min. :0.200 Min. :0.000 Min. :690.0
1st Qu.:1.925 1st Qu.:1.550 1st Qu.:787.5
Median :3.250 Median :3.300 Median :830.0
Mean :3.319 Mean :3.212 Mean :827.1
3rd Qu.:4.975 3rd Qu.:4.850 3rd Qu.:873.0
Max. :6.300 Max. :6.200 Max. :960.0
See
?data
for more details.
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