R has several preloaded data packages that can be very helpful in learning R.
The available packages can be loaded by using the command data()
, which will
then bring up a menu with options.
To exit that menu, type q
. To list what data is currently loaded, use the
ls()
command with empty parentheses. The following example loads the
Orange data set (regarding the growth of orange trees).
> data(Orange)
The commands head()
, tail()
, and rm()
can be used similarly to how they
would be in a Unix environment.
To show the first line of the Orange dataset, the command would be
head(Orange, n=1)
. If you wanted to unload the Orange dataset ,
use rm(Orange)
.