Tutorial by Examples

Rhas a vast collection of built-in datasets. Usually, they are used for teaching purposes to create quick and easily reproducible examples. There is a nice web-page listing the built-in datasets: https://vincentarelbundock.github.io/Rdatasets/datasets.html Example Swiss Fertility and Socioecono...

There are packages that include data or are created specifically to disseminate datasets. When such a package is loaded (library(pkg)), the attached datasets become available either as R objects; or they need to be called with the data() function. Gapminder A nice dataset on the development of c...

Numerous packages are created specifically to access some databases. Using them can save a bunch of time on reading/formating the data. Eurostat Even though eurostat package has a function search_eurostat(), it does not find all the relevant datasets available. This, it's more convenient to brow...

Human Mortality Database Human Mortality Database is a project of the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research that gathers and pre-process human mortality data for those countries, where more or less reliable statistics is available. # load required packages library(tidyverse) library(ext...