quartets

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Datasets to Help Teach Statistics

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Overview

About

Maintained by Lucy D'Agostino McGowanFirst published 2023-04-122 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

In the spirit of Anscombe's quartet, this package includes datasets that demonstrate the importance of visualizing your data, the importance of not relying on statistical summary measures alone, and why additional assumptions about the data generating mechanism are needed when estimating causal effects. The package includes "Anscombe's Quartet" (Anscombe 1973) doi:10.1080/00031305.1973.10478966, D'Agostino McGowan & Barrett (2023) "Causal Quartet" doi:10.48550/arXiv.2304.02683, "Datasaurus Dozen" (Matejka & Fitzmaurice 2017), "Interaction Triptych" (Rohrer & Arslan 2021) doi:10.1177/25152459211007368, "Rashomon Quartet" (Biecek et al. 2023) doi:10.48550/arXiv.2302.13356, and Gelman "Variation and Heterogeneity Causal Quartets" (Gelman et al. 2023) doi:10.48550/arXiv.2302.12878.

Install

R (CRAN)pak (dev)Ubuntu (r2u)Fedora (COPR)openSUSE (OBS)

install.packages("quartets", repos = "https://cloud.r-project.org/")

Installs the current CRAN release. Prebuilt binaries on Windows and macOS.

if (!requireNamespace("pak", quietly = TRUE))
  install.packages("pak", repos = "https://cloud.r-project.org/")
pak::pak("r-causal/quartets")

Development version from r-causal/quartets. Installs pak first if it is not already available.

Release

# enable cranapt (r2u) if it is not already set up, then install
grep -rqs r2u.stat.illinois.edu /etc/apt/sources.list /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ \
  || curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/eddelbuettel/r2u/master/inst/scripts/add_cranapt_noble.sh | sudo bash
sudo apt install -y r-cran-quartets

Fast Ubuntu binaries via r2u (no compilation). The cranapt setup runs once and is skipped when it is already enabled.

bspm (used by r2u) also needs make: sudo apt install make

# enable the iucar/cran COPR if it is not already present, then install
ls /etc/yum.repos.d/*iucar*cran*.repo >/dev/null 2>&1 \
  || sudo dnf copr enable -y iucar/cran
sudo dnf install -y R-CRAN-quartets

RPMs from the iucar/cran COPR, rebuilt from CRAN.

For install.packages() integration in R, also: sudo dnf install R-CoprManager

# add the autoCRAN OBS repo (Tumbleweed) if it is missing, then install
zypper -q lr | grep -qi autoCRAN \
  || sudo zypper addrepo https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/devel:/languages:/R:/autoCRAN/openSUSE_Tumbleweed/devel:languages:R:autoCRAN.repo
sudo zypper install -y R-quartets

RPMs auto-built from CRAN on openSUSE OBS (Tumbleweed).

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Repository

GitHub ↗ r-causal/quartets

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Lucy D'Agostino McGowan

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Lucy D'Agostino McGowan

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Release timeline

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22

Package metadata

First published: 2023-04-12
Total releases: 2 / 3 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 2.10
Bundled data: 257 KB / 22 files
Download size: 2.1 MB
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With dependencies: not tracked yet