R help - Dec 2008 - adding a new dataset to the default R distribution

Hi,
I am a student in archaeology with some interest in statistics and R.

Recently I've obtained the permission to distribute in the public domain
a small dataset (named "spearheads" with 40 obs. of  14 variables)
that
was used in an introductory statistics book for archaeologists
(published in 1994).

I've rewritten most of the exercises of that book in R and made them
available at http://wiki.iosa.it/diggingnumbers:start along with the
original dataset, but I was wondering if there is a standard procedure
for getting a new dataset included in the default R distribution, like
"cars" and others.

Please add me to CC if replying because I'm not subscribed to the list.

Best regards,
Stefano

-- 
Stefano Costa
http://www.iosa.it/ Open Archaeology

On Wed, 3 Dec 2008, Stefano Costa wrote:
> Hi,
> I am a student in archaeology with some interest in statistics and R.
>
> Recently I've obtained the permission to distribute in the public
domain
> a small dataset (named "spearheads" with 40 obs. of  14
variables) that
> was used in an introductory statistics book for archaeologists
> (published in 1994).
>
> I've rewritten most of the exercises of that book in R and made them
> available at http://wiki.iosa.it/diggingnumbers:start along with the
> original dataset, but I was wondering if there is a standard procedure
> for getting a new dataset included in the default R distribution, like
> "cars" and others.
We will only add datasets to R when they are needed for examples in base R 
(or exceptionally some 'classic' datasets like 'crimtab').  You
can always
distribute a dataset in a package (and many packages do: there are 
several packages on CRAN providing support for books including their 
datasets).
>
> Please add me to CC if replying because I'm not subscribed to the list.
>
> Best regards,
> Stefano
>
> -- 
> Stefano Costa
> http://www.iosa.it/ Open Archaeology
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