Rdatasets is a collection of 597 datasets that were originally distributed alongside the statistical software environment R and some of its add-on packages. The goal is to make these data more broadly accessible for teaching and statistical software development.
The list of available datasets (csv and docs) is available here:
On the github repository you will also find:
Rdatasets.R:Rscript to download CSV copies and HTML docs for all datasets distributed inBase Rand a list of R packages.docs2rst: A python script which callspandocto convert the HTML documentation to human readable text files.- Plain text versions (reStructuredText) of all doc files
Many R packages ship with associated datasets, but the script included here only downloads data from packages that are installed locally on the machine where it is run. If you spot interesting data in a package distributed on CRAN, let me know. I will try to install that package on my computer and I will re-run the download script to see if the data can be added to this repository. Requests should be filed on the Github issue tracker.
The R documentation which I copied to the Rdatasets html folder is licensed under GPL. You will find a copy of the GPL in the license folder. I made a good faith effort to determine the license under which the actual data (i.e. rows/columns of numbers) were distributed, but I was unable to find a definitive answer. My understanding is that these datasets are free to re-distribute. However, if you own the rights to data that are included here and you object to their inclusion in Rdatasets, send me an email at varel@umich.edu. I will promptly remove the data in question and will make sure that all traces are erased from the git revision history.