How to list the available data sets in R

Problem

We want to list the available data sets in R.

Solution

1. List all available data sets

data()

Data sets in package ‘datasets’:

AirPassengers           Monthly Airline Passenger Numbers 1949-1960
BJsales                 Sales Data with Leading Indicator
BJsales.lead (BJsales)
                        Sales Data with Leading Indicator
BOD                     Biochemical Oxygen Demand
CO2                     Carbon Dioxide Uptake in Grass Plants
ChickWeight             Weight versus age of chicks on different diets
DNase                   Elisa assay of DNase
EuStockMarkets          Daily Closing Prices of Major European Stock
                        Indices, 1991-1998
Formaldehyde            Determination of Formaldehyde
HairEyeColor            Hair and Eye Color of Statistics Students
...                    ...

2. List all available data sets, including those packages not currently loaded.

data(package = .packages(all.available = TRUE))

Data sets in package ‘aqp’:

amarillo                Amarillo Soils
ca630                   Soil Data from the Central Sierra Nevada Region
                        of California
munsell                 Munsell to sRGB Lookup Table for Common Soil
                        Colors
rruff.sample            Sample XRD Patterns
soil_minerals           Munsell Colors of Common Soil Minerals
sp1                     Soil Profile Data Example 1
sp2                     Honcut Creek Soil Profile Data
sp3                     Soil Profile Data Example 3
sp4                     Soil Chemical Data from Serpentinitic Soils of
                        California
sp5                     Sample Soil Database #5
sp6                     Soil Physical and Chemical Data from
                        Manganiferous Soils

Data sets in package ‘beeswarm’:

breast                  Lymph-node-negative primary breast tumors

3. List all available data sets of a specific package

data(package = "ISLR")

Data sets in package ‘ISLR’:

Auto                    Auto Data Set
Caravan                 The Insurance Company (TIC) Benchmark
Carseats                Sales of Child Car Seats
College                 U.S. News and World Report's College Data
Credit                  Credit Card Balance Data
Default                 Credit Card Default Data
Hitters                 Baseball Data
Khan                    Khan Gene Data
NCI60                   NCI 60 Data
OJ                      Orange Juice Data
Portfolio               Portfolio Data
Smarket                 S&P Stock Market Data
Wage                    Mid-Atlantic Wage Data
Weekly                  Weekly S&P Stock Market Data

References

• data{utils}