Math 141 Lab Notes

References and Resources

R Project homepage
FHCRC CRAN mirror: download your own copy of R, R packages, and documentation.
RStudio: an open source integrated development environment (IDE) for R.
Winston Chang's R CookBook
Brief overview of commands: R Reference Page.
Tom Short's R Reference Card (pdf).
Brief Intro to R
Try googling "Introduction to R", "Introduction to R coursera", or "Introduction to RStudio".

Lab Notes

Data Import/Export

Datasets

State level SAT data
Use read.csv("http://people.reed.edu/~jones/141/sat.csv") to load.
CPS data
Use read.csv("http://people.reed.edu/~jones/141/cps.csv") to load.
Anorexia Study data
Anscombe's data
Berkeley Guidance Study data load with
read.table("http://people.reed.edu/~jones/141/Berkeley.dat",header=TRUE)
Birth Weight data Birth Weight csv file
Bortkiewicz's horse kick data
Brain/Body size data
Braking Distance data
Science Library Budgets
Sir Cyril Burt's Twin Study
1993 Consumer Reports Auto data
CD4 dataset from Gelman and Hill Load with
read.csv("http://people.reed.edu/~jones/141/CD4.csv")
British Coal Mining Disasters
Mauna Loa CO2 data
Mauna Loa CO2 Description Load with:
read.table("http://people.reed.edu/~jones/141/co2.dat",header=TRUE)
Sample R script
Cuckoo Egg Data
Crab Growth data
Horseshoe Crab Nesting Data from J. Brockmann, Ethology 1996, load with
read.table("http://people.reed.edu/~jones/141/CrabSatellite.dat",header=TRUE)
Darwin's Zea mays data
Death Penalty and race
Election 2008 state level data. Load with
read.table("http://people.reed.edu/~jones/141/Election08.dat",header=TRUE)
Florida Election 2000 data
Framingham Heart Study
1972 Fuel Consumption data
Snow Goose Survey data
Glucose Tolerance test data
Gun registration data
Highway Accidents or use
Accidents <- read.csv("http://people.reed.edu/~jones/141/Hwy.csv")
Horseshoe crab data Load with
read.table("http://people.reed.edu/~jones/141/HorseshoeCrab.dat",header=TRUE)
Michelson's data or read.table("http://people.reed.edu/~jones/141/Michelson.R",header=TRUE)
Seismological data read with scan("http://people.reed.edu/~jones/141/MSH.html")
Simon Newcomb's data
Shuttle O-Ring data Or load with
read.csv("http://people.reed.edu/~jones/141/ORings.csv")
Snow Gauge data
Vitamin C data
Income Tax Data Load with
read.csv("http://people.reed.edu/~jones/141/Taxes.csv"), source
Where's Waldo?
read.table("http://people.reed.edu/~jones/141/Waldo.dat",header=TRUE)

Choropleths

Mac specific version!

Example: Unemployment data
FIPS data, Mac version.

Generic versions

Example: Unemployment data
FIPS data, long version , and a slightly abridged version, for matching by FIPS codes FIPS data, short. Finally, FIPS data, long version, with codes in character format. The long version has repetitions to allow matching with the R maps() county names for counties that are geographically disconnected.

R Functions and scripts

Albyn Jones
September 2007