

data {base}                                  R Documentation

_D_a_t_a _S_e_t_s

_D_e_s_c_r_i_p_t_i_o_n_:

     `data' loads a data set or lists (via `show.data') the
     available data sets.

_U_s_a_g_e_:

     data(..., list = character(0), package = c(.packages(),.Autoloaded),
          lib.loc = .lib.loc)
     show.data(package = c(.packages(),.Autoloaded), lib.loc = .lib.loc)

_A_r_g_u_m_e_n_t_s_:

     ...: a sequence of `name's 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.

_D_e_t_a_i_l_s_:

     Currently, four formats of data files are supported:

        * files ending `".RData"' or `".rda"' are
          `load()ed'.

        * files ending `".R"' or `".r"' are `source()d' in,
          with the R working directory changed temporarily
          to the directory containing the respective file.

        * files ending `".tab"' or `".txt"' are read using
          `read.table(..., header = TRUE)', and hence result
          in a `data.frame'.

        * files ending `".csv"' are read using
          `read.table(..., header = TRUE, sep=";")', and
          also result in a `data.frame'.

_V_a_l_u_e_:

     A character vector of all data sets specified, an empty
     character vector if none were specified.

_S_e_e _A_l_s_o_:

     `help' for obtaining documentation on data sets.

_E_x_a_m_p_l_e_s_:

     data()                       # list all available data sets
     data(package = base)         # list the data sets in the base package
     data(USArrests, "VADeaths")  # load the data sets `USArrests and `VADeaths'
     help(USArrests)              # give information on data set `USArrests'

