Handbook of Small Datasets
Hi: As promised, I have rolled up a few versions of the files in HDLMO and put them in my Dropbox. (1) Zipped csv form: https://dl.dropbox.com/u/57587928/csv.zip (2) Individual R binary objects in zip form: https://dl.dropbox.com/u/57587928/Rdata.zip (3) All of the R objects in one .Rdata file: https://dl.dropbox.com/u/57587928/hdlmo.Rdata Should you choose to access one or more of these archives, I ******strongly******* encourage you to read the index.txt and README.txt files that come with the zipped archives. I took more than a few liberties with renaming R objects relative to the names of the original datasets (originally, this was meant for my own use), and many data sets contain more than one R object (and hence more than one corresponding .Rdata or .csv file). The file index.txt provides the roadmap that connects the numbers and descriptions of the original data sets to the names of the corresponding R objects, their class/type and the name of the csv file to which the R object was written. The README file explains a few things about the contents of the archive and the process by which it was generated. The R versions are, of course, for R aficionados (after all, this is R-sig-teaching :), while the csv versions are for more general applications. The R binary (3) contains neither index.txt nor README.txt, so grab one of the zip archives to access these files. I hope you find these useful in some aspect of your work. Dennis
On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 1:58 AM, Dennis Murphy <djmuser at gmail.com> wrote:
That's what the book is for: its purpose is to describe the variables and context of each data set. The book 'Data' by Andrews and Herzberg (1985) is similar in that respect. As I mentioned to Bob privately, I thought about making a R package of the data sets in HDLMO several years ago because I used a number of them in teaching, but then realized that if I wrote the help pages, I'd essentially be violating the copyright of the book...so that project died. But I do have a collection of R objects for the data sets which I'm editing and hope to finish before the weekend is out. Bob prefers a zipped csv archive, but I can make an R binary available (or a zipped version of .Rdata files) if anyone is interested. Dennis On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 7:54 PM, Jeff Laux <jefflaux at gmail.com> wrote:
Yes. They can be found on NC State's Statistics department's website:
http://www.stat.ncsu.edu/working_groups/sas/sicl/data/
However, the accompanying stories don't exist. What is posted is just tab
delimited text files with numeric data. Someone else will have to say what
the numbers are supposed to mean.
On 1/30/2013 6:48 PM, Bob wrote:
Just saw a mention of _Handbook of Small Datasets_. Does anyone know if the data files ever got cleaned up and posted on the Internet? I bought this when I came out and the disk included files that seemed to be created by cut and paste from the manuscript. This meant that the "shape" of the data matched a typesetter's needs rather than a statistician's. Most of the datasets needed considerable manual work before one could hand them off to students. (I DID find what appeared to be the original disfunctional versions online.) It's really sad that a collection that was such a good idea on paper was so poorly implemented. -------> First-time AP Stats. teacher? Help is on the way! See http://courses.ncssm.edu/math/Stat_Inst/Stats2007/Bob%20Hayden/Relief.html _ | | Robert W. Hayden | | 142 Main Street / | Apartment 104 | | Jaffrey, New Hampshire 03452 USA | | email: bob@ the site below / | website: http://statland.org | x / phone: (603) 532-7224 (home) ''''''
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