Overview 

Interesting data sets can enliven statistics and data science courses. They also give students the opportunity to work on real data and thus solve real problems. This activity shows you how to access the large library of datasets available within R-Instat from the R Packages. 

Watch the video.

 

 

Video script prepared by Rachel Kirk-Gushowaty, and Roger Stern.  Video constructed and voiced by Beryl Waswa.

  • 0:00 Introduction to Importing Data from the R-Instat Library 
  • 0:21 Import from library dialog 
  • 0:40 mtcars data 
  • 1:08 USJudgeRatings dataset 
  • 1:42 R-Instat help 
  • 2:20 Diamonds dataset 
  • 3:01 rockart dataset 
  • 3:37 Data frame metadata 
  • 3:57 Next steps

(4 minutes)

Follow along with this activity to see some examples and learn how to access datasets from the library. 

Import from Library