NEWS.md

In rwoldford/loon.data: Data Used to Illustrate 'Loon' Functionality

loon.data 0.1.4

• fixed the references for data set SAHeart to avoid accents causing notes in CRAN.

loon.data 0.1.3

• 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 now appear.

loon.data 0.1.2

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

loon.data 0.1.1

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

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

loon.data 0.0.5

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

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