On Wed, 10 Nov 2004, John Maindonald wrote: > I have posted, at http://wwwmaths.anu.edu.au/~john/r/newsets/ > image (.rda) files, and first stabs at .Rd files for various data on > deaths in London from 1629 to 1939. (There are of course gaps.) > The sources (Guy 1882 & Stocks 1942) are documented in the > .Rd files: > (1) poxetc: measles, smallpox & total deaths: 1629-1881 > [I have deliberately left several inconsistencies that were > in Guy's published data.] > (2) measles: 1629-1939 [This includes the measles data from (1)] > (3) whooping cough; 1740-1881. > > I had been planning to add these data to the DAAG package. > I wonder however there is interest in adding them to the > datasets package, as they seem to me data that may be of wide > interest. Is that package now seen as closed to further additions, > or will additions continue from time to time?
I think only if examples are needed for methods in one of the standard packages (most likely stats). The last time we added a substantial number of datasets was with the ts package. -- Brian D. Ripley, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595 ______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
