exoplanets: Exoplanet Datasets for Teaching Introductory Statistics

Tidied datasets of confirmed exoplanets and their host stars, retrieved from NASA's Exoplanet Archive via the REXoplanets package.

Datasets

• planets - one row per confirmed exoplanet (pscomppars table)

• stars - reference-level stellar host data (stellarhosts table)

Data dictionary

Machine-readable column dictionaries are shipped in inst/extdata:

system.file("extdata", "data_dictionary_planets.csv", package = "exoplanets")
system.file("extdata", "data_dictionary_stars.csv",   package = "exoplanets")
system.file("extdata", "data_dictionary.md",          package = "exoplanets")

See also

Useful links:

• https://github.com/moderndive/exoplanets

• Report bugs at https://github.com/moderndive/exoplanets/issues

Author

Maintainer: Chester Ismay chester.ismay@gmail.com