loon.data 0.1.3 Unreleased

  • fixed the data set covidNZ to have its variable types match the help description. Now a mix of factors, character vectors, and dates.

  • removed urls as sources. Only <doi: …> now appear.

loon.data 0.1.2 Unreleased

  • added the data set trtPan which is a rearrangement of the data contained in pandemic

loon.data 0.1.1 2020-08-26

  • Very minor changes
    • removed an accented character from New Zealand district name Tairawhiti
    • changed each URL from http: to https:
    • had to remove @source for placenamesCanada because access to the URL timed out in testing. URL is now buried in the comments.

loon.data 0.1.0 2020-05-31

  • added the New Zealand current cases on COVID-19 as of May 28, 2020.

  • added dataset containing the names and locations of more than 10,000 places in Canada (French and English)

loon.data 0.0.9 2020-05-19

  • organized topics in pkgdown yaml

  • added the diabetes data from Andrews and Herzberg

  • added the data on rock crabs from MASS separated into two data sets for pedagogical purposes

    • lepto contains the physical size measurements (rows randomized from crabs from MASS)
    • crabSpecies contains the species and sex from crabs in row order given by lepto.
  • added data on sampling from a set of 100 flat plastic blocks

    • blocks contains the ids of each of the 100 blocks as well as their weight, their perimeter, and to which of two strata they belong.
    • judgment contains the judgment sample of 10 blocks chosen by each of 33 graduate students
    • together these two data sets are used to illustrate sampling methods.
  • added three fictional data sets (and contexts) to be used for teaching

    • lizards is a fictional data set on perch preferences for four different species of lizard. Useful to illustrate a continuous counter part to Simpson’s paradox often called the “ecological fallacy”.
    • pandemic is a fictional data set on recovery rates for three treatments for patients from 100 cities worldwide. Designed to make students think when comparing treatments. Contains a cyclic ordering of treatments
    • medicalRecords is a fictional data set containing counts in a 2x2x2x2 table. Designed to contain a double reversing Simpson’s paradox.

loon.data 0.0.8 2020-04-19

  • added the protein/DNA complex SCmolecule from Baker’s Yeast (Saccharomyces Cerevisiae) from PDB 1d66

  • added elements containing a variety of information on the first 118 elements from the periodic table.

loon.data 0.0.7 Unreleased

  • Added and documented datasets that had previously been used from the package ElemStatLearn since it has been orphaned and as of 2020 archived.
  • Documentation of these added datasets is richer than that found in ElemStatLearn package
  • datasets added are
    • SAheart South African Heart Disease Data
    • bone Relative Spinal Bone Mineral Density Data (note variable name changes from ElemStatLearn and edition of ethnic)
    • bone_ext Spinal Bone Mineral Density (Extended) Data (the larger data set including “ethnicities” from website accompany Elements of Statistical Learning book)

loon.data 0.0.6 2019-09-28

  • Changes to alaska_forest data, removed redundant rows, changed variable names to lower case.

loon.data 0.0.5 2019-07-18

  • Renamed RnavgraphImageData to loon.data
  • added list_images functions
  • removed L2Distance