Thanks to Kit Baum, the rdatasets command is now available from SSC. The command facilitates access to 1174 datasets in 40 collections distributed with R or some of its packages. The collection was assembled in GitHub by Vincent Arel-Bundock to make these data more broadly accessible for teaching and statistical software development, see R Datasets.
The rdatasets command can list the packages available, list the datasets in each package, access the online documentation, and download the data in CSV format. Here's how to download the presidential approval data in the Zelig package:
A few datasets appear in more than one package, and some datasets may be available in Stata format from other sources. Enjoy!
The rdatasets command can list the packages available, list the datasets in each package, access the online documentation, and download the data in CSV format. Here's how to download the presidential approval data in the Zelig package:
Code:
rdatasets get Zelig approval, clear
