Developing Data Products Course Project

iris, mtcars, airquality… you'd think they're the only datasets contained in the R datasets package.

Did you know this base package contains more than 100 datasets? Neither did I. Here's proof:

library(datasets)
nrow(as.data.frame(data()$results))

[1] 104

What if you could dynamically check out the wonderful and unknown worlds of the much under-explored R datasets package?

The DatasetsExplorer Shiny application lets you interactively review the datasets in the R datasets package.

To start DatasetsExplorer, go here.

Use the dropdown in the sidebar to choose a dataset.

Go to the Explorer tab to view the dataset information.

Displayed information includes:

• Dataset name
• One-line dataset description
• Dataset dimensions
• Dataset structure
• Dataset summary statistics

To try the DatasetsExplorer app, go to:
https://philferriere.shinyapps.io/DatasetsExplorer

The Github repo for the app and this presentation is at:
https://github.com/philferriere/DatasetsExplorer

Official information page for the R datasets package:
https://stat.ethz.ch/R-manual/R-devel/library/datasets/html/00Index.html