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Created October 30, 2017 11:56
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Programmatically access data provided by packages in R
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data_from_packages.R
## Access data provided by packages
## List all available data sets, plus ancillary information ####
the_data <- data()
## Extract just the packages as a data frame ####
the_data_df <- data.frame(the_data$results, stringsAsFactors = FALSE)
## Extract specific data sets ####
specific_data <- get(the_data_df$Item[1])
specific_data <- get(the_data_df$Item[2])
specific_data <- get(the_data_df$Item[the_data_df$Item == "women"])
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