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'''datasets.load''' is an R package and [[RStudio]] plugin, that provides both a [[Graphical User Interface]] (GUI), as well as a [[Command Line Interface]] for loading datasets.<ref>{{Citation|last=Quast|first=Bastiaan|title=datasets.load: Interfaces for Loading Datasets|date=2019-12-12|url=https://cran.r-project.org/package=datasets.load|volume=|pages=|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200430061643/https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/datasets.load/index.html|access-date=2020-04-30|archive-date=2020-04-30}}</ref> Normally, R only makes visible datasets of packages that are loaded, '''datasets.load''' shows the list of all installed datasets on the local library, including datasets included with packages that are not loaded. It is one of the top 10% of most downloaded R packages.

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== Reception ==

The initial release on CRAN of version 0.1.0 took place in December 2016, and averaged a download rate of 1,000 times per month, from the RStudio servers alone. With the release of version 0.3.0 in 2018, the download rate increased to 2,000 times per month, putting the package in the 9th percentile of most popular R packages.<ref>{{Citation|last=Quast|first=Bastiaan|title=Visual interface for loading datasets in RStudio|date=2020-04-30|url=https://github.com/bquast/datasets.load|volume=|pages=|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200501080947/https://github.com/bquast/datasets.load|access-date=2020-05-01|archive-date=2020-05-01}}</ref>. The package was reviewed in the 2017 article "R Packages worth a look" on Data Analytics & R,<ref>{{Cite news|last=Laux|first=Michael|date=2017-01-05|title=R Packages worth a look|language=en-US|work=Data Analytics & R|url=https://advanceddataanalytics.net/2017/01/05/r-packages-worth-a-look-667/|url-status=live|access-date=2020-05-01|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200103104538/https://analytixon.com/2017/01/05/r-packages-worth-a-look-667/|archive-date=2020-01-03}}</ref>, which further increased usage. It is also frequently preinstalled on university computers,<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|url=https://wiki.carleton.edu/display/itskb/R+packages+installed|title=R packages installed - ITS - Carlpedia - Carleton College Wiki|last=|first=|date=|website=wiki.carleton.edu|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200103104913/https://wiki.carleton.edu/display/itskb/R+packages+installed|archive-date=2020-01-03|access-date=2020-01-03}}</ref>, in order to help make R more accessible to students.

Version 1.0.0 was released on 12 December 2019, with a version 1.4.0 which was built against R 4.0.0 being released on 27 April 2020.<ref name=":0" />.

The RStudio CRAN mirror download logs

<ref>{{cite web|title=RStudio CRAN logs|url=http://cran-logs.rstudio.com/}}</ref> show that the package is downloaded more than 2,000 times per month from those servers

,<ref>{{cite web|title=CRANlogs datasets.load package|url=https://cranlogs.r-pkg.org/badges/datasets.load}}</ref>, with a total of over 65,000 downloads since the first release

,<ref>{{cite web|title=CRANlogs datasets.load package|url=https://cranlogs.r-pkg.org/badges/grand-total/datasets.load}}</ref>, according to RDocumentation.org, this puts the package in the 9th percentile of most popular R packages.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.rdocumentation.org/packages/datasets.load/versions/1.4.0|title=datasets.load package R Documentation|last=|first=|date=|website=www.rdocumentation.org|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200103153839/https://www.rdocumentation.org/packages/datasets.load/versions/1.0.0/|archive-date=2020-01-03|access-date=2020-04-30}}</ref>. On [https://www.rdocumentation.org/ Rdocumentation.org] it is listed as the second most downloaded package under the keyword "datasets"<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.rdocumentation.org/search?q=datasets|title=RDocumentation: Results for "datasets"|last=|first=|date=|website=www.rdocumentation.org|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200103104002/https://www.rdocumentation.org/search?q=datasets|archive-date=2020-01-03|access-date=2020-04-30}}</ref> (after the base R package datasets), with "datasets" being the most popular keyword on Rdocumentation.org.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.rdocumentation.org/trends|title=RDocumentation Trends|last=|first=|date=|website=www.rdocumentation.org|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200103104048/https://www.rdocumentation.org/trends|archive-date=2020-01-03|access-date=2020-04-30}}</ref>.

== References ==