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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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