The State Of Data On CRAN: Discovering Good Data Packages

It is always a struggle to find suitable datasets with which to teach, especially across domain expertise. There are many packages that have data, but finding them and knowing what is in them is a struggle due to inadequate documentation. Here we have compiled a search-able database of dataset metadata taken from R packages on CRAN. See https://ropenscilabs.github.io/data-packages/