get_dataset()

Download and read a dataset as a Polars DataFrame from the marginaleffects or from the list at https://vincentarelbundock.github.io/Rdatasets/. Returns documentation link if docs is True.

Parameters

dataset: (str) String. Name of the dataset to download.

• marginaleffects archive: affairs, airbnb, ces_demographics, ces_survey, immigration, lottery, military, thornton, factorial_01, interaction_01, interaction_02, interaction_03, interaction_04, polynomial_01, polynomial_02
• Rdatasets archive: The name of a dataset listed on the Rdatasets index. See the website or the search argument.

package: (str, optional) The package to download the dataset from.

docs: (bool, optional) If True, return the documentation URL instead of the dataset. Default is False.

search: (str, optional) The string is a regular expression. Download the dataset index from Rdatasets; search the “Package”, “Item”, and “Title” columns; and return the matching rows.

Returns

(Union[str, pl.DataFrame]) * A string representing the documentation URL if docs is True, or a Polars DataFrame containing the dataset if docs is False.

Raises

ValueError * If the dataset is not among the specified choices.

Examples

get_dataset()
get_dataset("Titanic", package="Stat2Data")
get_dataset(search = "(?i)titanic)