This page lists some data sets, mainly taken from statistical text books, useful for teaching statistics, multivariate analysis in particular. You can read these files straight into the R environment with the instruction:

X <- read.table("http://www-eio.upc.es/~jan/data/MVA/filename",header=TRUE)

Data Sets

Nr. Data set Reference File name
1. Einsiedeln 7th FIS Cup competition http://www.fis-ski.com/ Einsiedeln.dat
2. Danish data on nesting of storks Gabriel, K. R. and Odoroff, C. L. (1990) Biplots in biomedical research. Statistics in Medicine 9(5): pp. 469-485. storks.dat
3. Archeological goblets Manly, BFJ (1989) Multivariate statistical methods: a primer, Chapman and Hall, London Goblets.dat
4. Open/closed book data Mardia, KV et al. (1979) Multivariate analysis, Academic press. BookOpenClosed.dat
5. UN Poverty data (with missings coded -99) Rouncefield, M. (1995) The statistics of poverty and inequality, J. Stat. Educ. 3 PovertyStudy.dat
6. UN Poverty data (imputed) Rouncefield, M. (1995) The statistics of poverty and inequality, J. Stat. Educ. 3 PovertyStudyImputed.dat
7. Myocardial infarction Saporta, G. (2006) Probabilités, Analyse des Données et Statistique. Editions Technip, Paris. Infarct.csv
8. Road distances Spanish cities NA SpainDist.dat
9. Major oxide composition of Romano British pottery Tubb, A., Parker, A.J. and G. Nickless (1980). The Analysis of Romano-British pottery by atomic absorption spectrophotometry Archeometry 22(2): pp. 153--171. RomanoBritishPottery.dat
10. Protein consumption of European countries Weber, A. (1973) Agrarpolitik im Spannungsfeld der Internationalen Ernaehrungspolitik. Institut fuer Agrarpolitik und Marktlehre, Kiel, Germany. protein.dat
11. Swiss banknotes Weisberg, S. (2005) Applied Linear Regression. 3rd ed. John Wiley & Sons, New Jersey Banknote.dat