[R] Load datasets
R. Michael Weylandt <michael.weylandt@gmail.com>
michael.weylandt at gmail.com
Thu Mar 29 19:50:30 CEST 2012
Yes, but if the OP wants to assign the values to "ineed" (which I think is the request), he'll need get()
Michael
On Mar 29, 2012, at 12:50 PM, David Winsemius <dwinsemius at comcast.net> wrote:
>
> On Mar 29, 2012, at 12:13 PM, R. Michael Weylandt wrote:
>
>> Perhaps something like
>
>>> alldata = data(package="MASS")
>>> arg = alldata$results[70,3]
>>> ineed <- data(arg, package="MASS")
>>
>> get(data(list = arg))
>
> I think the get() is superfluous:
>
> > rm(phones)
> > exists("phones")
> [1] FALSE
> > data(list=arg, package="MASS")
>
> > exists("phones")
> [1] TRUE
>
>
>
>>
>> 2012/3/29 Hua Liang <dickliang911 at gmail.com>:
>>>
>>> I am trying to use datasets within R with a loaded package, for example, MASS. When I use the dataset phones, it can be done using data(phones, package=”MASS”). I am thinking about an alternative but more flexible way to load this dataset. Because phones is the
>>> 70th dataset in this package, I wrote the following codes. Unfortunately they don’t work. It will be greatly appreciated if someone can help me figure out.
>>>
>
>
> --
>
> David Winsemius, MD
> West Hartford, CT
>
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