[R-sig-teaching] Handbook of Small Datasets

[Dennis Murphy]

Hi:

As promised, I have rolled up a few versions of the files in HDLMO and
put them in my Dropbox.

(1) Zipped csv form:
https://dl.dropbox.com/u/57587928/csv.zip

(2) Individual R binary objects in zip form:
https://dl.dropbox.com/u/57587928/Rdata.zip

(3) All of the R objects in one .Rdata file:
https://dl.dropbox.com/u/57587928/hdlmo.Rdata

Should you choose to access one or more of these archives, I
******strongly******* encourage you to read the index.txt and
README.txt files that come with the zipped archives. I took more than
a few liberties with renaming R objects relative to the names of the
original datasets (originally, this was meant for my own use), and
many data sets contain more than one R object (and hence more than one
corresponding .Rdata or .csv file). The file index.txt provides the
roadmap that connects the numbers and descriptions of the original
data sets to the names of the corresponding R objects, their
class/type and the name of the csv file to which the R object was
written. The README file explains a few things about the contents of
the archive and the process by which it was generated.

The R versions are, of course, for R aficionados (after all, this is
R-sig-teaching :), while the csv versions are for more general
applications.

The R binary (3) contains neither index.txt nor README.txt, so grab
one of the zip archives to access these files.

I hope you find these useful in some aspect of your work.
Dennis

On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 1:58 AM, Dennis Murphy <djmuser at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.
>>>
>>>
>>> ------->  First-time AP Stats. teacher?  Help is on the way! See
>>> http://courses.ncssm.edu/math/Stat_Inst/Stats2007/Bob%20Hayden/Relief.html
>>>        _
>>>       | |          Robert W. Hayden
>>>       | |          142 Main Street
>>>      /  |          Apartment 104
>>>     |   |          Jaffrey, New Hampshire 03452  USA
>>>     |   |          email: bob@ the site below
>>>    /    |          website: http://statland.org
>>>   | x   /          phone: (603) 532-7224 (home)
>>>   ''''''
>>>
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