data(..., list = character(0), package = c(.packages(),.Autoloaded),
lib.loc = .lib.loc)
...
|
a sequence of names or character strings
|
list
| a character vector |
package
| a name or character vector giving the packages to look into for data sets. By default, all packages in the search path are used. |
lib.loc
| a character vector of directory names of R libraries. Defaults to all libraries currently known. |
data loads or lists available data sets.
The data sets to be loaded can be specified as a sequence of names
or character strings, or as the character vector list, or as both.
If no data sets are specified, the available data sets are displayed.
Currently, four formats of data files are supported:
".RData" or ".rda" are
load()ed.
".R" are source()d in.
".tab" or ".txt" are read using
read.table(..., header = TRUE), and hence result in
a data.frame.
".csv" are read using
read.table(..., header = TRUE, sep=";"),
and also result in a data.frame.
help for obtaining documentation on data sets.data() # list all available data sets data(package = base) # list the data sets in the base package data(crimes, "deaths") # load the data sets `crimes' and `deaths' help(crimes) # give information on data set `crimes'