data {base}

R Documentation

Data Sets

Description

data loads or lists available data sets.

The data sets to be loaded can be specified as a sequence of names or character strings, or as the character vector list, or as both.

If no data sets are specified, the available data sets are displayed.

Usage

data(..., list = character(0), package = .packages(),
     lib.loc = .lib.loc)

Arguments

...	a sequence of names or character strings
list	a character vector
package	a name or character vector giving the packages to look into for data sets. By default, all packages in the search path are used.
lib.loc	a character vector of directory names of R libraries. Defaults to all libraries currently known.

Value

A character vector of all data sets specified for loading.

See Also

help for obtaining documentation on data sets.

Examples

data()                       # list all available data sets
data(package = base)         # list the data sets in the base package
data(crimes, "deaths")       # load the data sets `crimes' and `deaths'
help(crimes)                 # give information on data set `crimes'

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