Introduction to the dslabs R package

The dslabs R package is short for Data Science Labs. The package includes several datasets, such as the dataset called murders for US gun murders by state for 2010:

> library(dslabs) 
> data(murders) 
> head(murders) 
       state abb region population total 
1    Alabama  AL  South    4779736   135 
2     Alaska  AK   West     710231    19 
3    Arizona  AZ   West    6392017   232 
4   Arkansas  AR  South    2915918    93 
5 California  CA   West   37253956  1257 
6   Colorado  CO   West    5029196    65 

The following table shows the datasets included in the package:

Name of dataset	Description
admissions	Gender bias among graduate school admissions to UC Berkeley
divorce_margarine	Divorce rate and margarine consumption data
ds_theme_set	dslabs theme set
gapminder	Gapminder data
heights	Self-Reported...