Package: DAAGxtras
Version: 0.7-6
Date: 2009-04-18
Title: Data Sets and Functions, supplementary to DAAG
Author: John Maindonald
Maintainer: John Maindonald <john.maindonald@anu.edu.au>
Description: various data sets used in additonal exercises for the book
Maindonald, J.H. and Braun, W.J. (2nd edn 2007) "Data Analysis
and Graphics Using R", and for a 'Data Mining' course.  Note
especially the datasets \code{nassCDS} (airbag and other
influences on US vehicle accident outcomes: 1997-2002),
\code{cricketer} (handedness, British first class cricketers
born 1840-1960 whose handedness could be determined),
\code{nswdemo} and related datasets (US Labor Training
Evaluation Data), \code{rockArt} (multivariate binary data on
Pacific rock art), \code{hotspots} (ages and distance from
Kilauea of larval hotspots; c.f. also \code{hotspots2006}),
\code{nihills} (record times for Northern Ireland mountain
races), \code{worldRecords} (record times for track and road
races), \code{progression} (progression of record times for
track races), \code{edcT} and \code{edcCO2} (temperature and
CO2 estimates from the EPICA Dome C ice core, covering 0 to 800
kyr BP), \code{grog} (Australian and NZ liquor consumption
patterns, 1998-2006), and \code{bomregions} (historical
Australian climate data).
LazyLoad: true
LazyData: true
Depends: R (>= 2.4.0)
Suggests: DAAG
ZipData: no
License: Unlimited
URL: http://www.maths.anu.edu.au/~johnm
Packaged: 2009-04-19 10:28:37 UTC; johnm
Repository: CRAN
Date/Publication: 2009-04-19 18:06:56

Description: various data sets used in additional exercises for the
book Maindonald, J.H. and Braun, W.J. (2nd edn 2007) "Data
Analysis and Graphics Using R", and for a 'Data Mining' course.
Note that a number of datasets that were in version 0.7-6 of
this package have been transferred to the DAAG package.

book Maindonald, J.H. and Braun, W.J. (3rd edn 2010) "Data

Note that a number of datasets that were in earlier versions of

Description: various data sets used in additional exercises for
the book Maindonald, J.H. and Braun, W.J. (3rd edn 2010)
'Data Mining' course.  Note that a number of datasets
that were in earlier versions of this package have been
Suggests: DAAG, MASS, lattice, randomForest