[R] MASS data sets

Murray Jorgensen maj at waikato.ac.nz
Wed May 23 11:44:33 CEST 2001


Bad news! The fix that worked on my desktop doesn't work on the laptop.
Everything is now unzipped and still I can't load the MASS datasets.

Murray

At 16:44 23-05-01 , Murray Jorgensen wrote:
>Mmmm, I think I see what the problem is now. Somehow rwinst.exe didn't unzip
>all the directories in the tree under 
>D:\Program Files\rw1022\library\MASS\
>I had later unzipped those files in
>D:\Program Files\rw1022\library\MASS\data
>and some, but not all, of the zip files in other subdirectories.
>
>Finishing the unzipping did the job, at least it did on my other machine.
>
>Sorry for disturbing the list!
>
>At 11:14 AM 23-05-01 +1200, Murray Jorgensen wrote:
>>I'm running R 1.2.2 under windows 98 on a Pentium 133 laptop.
>>I can't seem to retrieve the package MASS data sets:
>>> library(MASS)
>>> data(wtloss)
>>Warning message: 
>>Data set `wtloss' not found in: data(wtloss) 
>>> data(abbey)
>>Warning message: 
>>Data set `abbey' not found in: data(abbey) 
>>
>>And yet all the .rda files for the MASS datasets are in
>>
>>D:\Program Files\rw1022\library\MASS\data
>>
>>Help, anyone?
>>
>>
>>Murray Jorgensen,  Department of Statistics,  U of Waikato, Hamilton, NZ
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