data() not working in R . (version 3.0.2)

Question

I got a very trivial but a very frustrating problem. The problem is, I want to load data from the packages I have already installed in R . This is what I am doing :

1. Open R
2. then I would type data() to see what data sets are available.
3. Let's see I want to load CO2 data set from the package "datasets"
4. But when I type data(CO2) in the console, nothing happens.

Even co2 <- data(CO2) doesn't seems to be working. I also tried loading datasets using library(datasets) but nothing seems to be working. Please Help !

Answer 1

data() loads the dataset into the global environment if not already loaded. Just type:

CO2

to access the dataset. For CO2, you do not even have to use data(CO2).