[R] trouble reading in datasets

[Prof Brian Ripley]

> Clayton Springer <csprin at brandybuck.ca.sandia.gov> writes:
> 
> > Dear All,
> > 
> > I was trying to follow some of the examples in Venables and Ripley "Modern 
applied ... with S-plus"
> > I have downloaded a copy of the iris data set and loaded into R. :
> > 
> > however I cannot use the apply command (from p47):

[...]
> 
> Actually, that isn't the end of the story, because the iris data that
> comes with S is stored as a 3-way array, rather than a dataframe. The
> way to convert from one to the other is -ahem- left as an exercise....

Or you could look in the V&R scripts for R (in the VR bundle on CRAN) to
see that the R version called `iris3' is what you want. This is even
mentioned in the on-line R Complements to V&R (www.stats.ox.ac.uk/pub/MASS2
for the second edition, MASS3 for the third edition).

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Brian D. Ripley,                  ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk
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