[R-sig-teaching] Handbook of Small Datasets

[Dennis Murphy]

That's what the book is for: its purpose is to describe the variables
and context of each data set. The book 'Data' by Andrews and Herzberg
(1985) is similar in that respect. As I mentioned to Bob privately, I
thought about making a R package of the data sets in HDLMO several
years ago because I used a number of them in teaching, but then
realized that if I wrote the help pages, I'd essentially be violating
the copyright of the book...so that project died. But I do have a
collection of R objects for the data sets which I'm editing and hope
to finish before the weekend is out. Bob prefers a zipped csv archive,
but I can make an R binary available (or a zipped version of .Rdata
files) if anyone is interested.

Dennis

On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 7:54 PM, Jeff Laux <jefflaux at gmail.com> wrote:
> Yes.  They can be found on NC State's Statistics department's website:
>
>      http://www.stat.ncsu.edu/working_groups/sas/sicl/data/
>
> However, the accompanying stories don't exist.  What is posted is just tab
> delimited text files with numeric data.  Someone else will have to say what
> the numbers are supposed to mean.
>
>
>
> On 1/30/2013 6:48 PM, Bob wrote:
>>
>> Just saw a mention of _Handbook of Small Datasets_.  Does anyone know
>> if the data files ever got cleaned up and posted on the Internet?  I
>> bought this when I came out and the disk included files that seemed to
>> be created by cut and paste from the manuscript.  This meant that the
>> "shape" of the data matched a typesetter's needs rather than a
>> statistician's.  Most of the datasets needed considerable manual work
>> before one could hand them off to students.  (I DID find what appeared
>> to be the original disfunctional versions online.)  It's really sad
>> that a collection that was such a good idea on paper was so poorly
>> implemented.
>>
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