[R] Missing datasets (2.13.1)

[Dennis Murphy]

data(ToothGrowth)

makes it available in your workspace.

> data(ToothGrowth)
> ls()
[1] "ToothGrowth"
> str(ToothGrowth)
'data.frame':   60 obs. of  3 variables:
 $ len : num  4.2 11.5 7.3 5.8 6.4 10 11.2 11.2 5.2 7 ...
 $ supp: Factor w/ 2 levels "OJ","VC": 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 ...
 $ dose: num  0.5 0.5 0.5 0.5 0.5 0.5 0.5 0.5 0.5 0.5 ...

Dennis

On Sun, Aug 14, 2011 at 9:33 PM, Sierra Bravo <sierra1bravo at gmail.com> wrote:
> Dear all
> How does one resolve the variance between the actual availability of data
> sets in the default implementation with those mentioned in the
> documentation?
>
> I am unable to attach some of the datasets, even though help() is available
> for the same datasets. For example, "ToothGrowth" is a dataset that is
> widely mentioned in the documentation as being part of the base install.
> help("ToothGrowth") does bring up help.
>
> However, the dataset is missing from the install as I'm unable to attach()
> it. (An aside: why is the data() command silent on a missing dataset ?
> data("ToothGrowth") is silent, whereas attach("ToothGrowth") fails loudly).
>
> Where can I locate and integrate the missing datasets into my base install?
>
>
> TIA/cheers
>
>
> s.b.
>
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