Data sets from the history of statistics and data visualization The HistData package provides a collection of small data sets that are interesting and important in the history of statistics and data visualization. The goal of the package is to make these available, both for instructional use and for historical research. Some of these present interesting challenges for graphics or analysis in R. Software Depends: R (>= 2.10) Suggests: gtools, KernSmooth, maps, ggplot2, proto, grid, reshape, plyr, lattice, ReadImages, car, gplots, sp, heplots, lattice Michael Friendly <friendly@yorku.ca> Michael Friendly, with contributions by Stephane Dray, Hadley Wickham, James Hanley, Dennis Murphy GPL 2011-10-26 application/tgz http://CRAN.R-project.org/package=HistData