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R for Reproducible Scientific Analysis
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Include note about built-in datasets in R #848

Open maneesha opened 1 year ago

maneesha commented 1 year ago

The list subsetting exercise references the built-in dataset mtcars. Consider including an explanation of what that is and why we did not need to define it as we did all our other datasets.

Yatish0833 commented 7 months ago

I agree. Built-in R datasets should be introduced. The ability for students to see all datasets available to then using "data()" function is important. Maybe a good place to introduce would be at the very start of data structures lesson before building the feline-data.csv.

naupaka commented 7 months ago

Good suggestion!