--- title: Spurious correlations 0.2 is on CRAN! | daily.dev description: The spuriouscorrelations R package version 0.2 is now on CRAN. It preserves datasets from Tyler Vigen's famous spurious correlations website (archived in 2023)... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/spurious-correlations-0-2-is-on-cran--vertfhcft twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Spurious correlations 0.2 is on CRAN! | daily.dev og:description: The spuriouscorrelations R package version 0.2 is now on CRAN. It preserves datasets from Tyler Vigen's famous spurious correlations website (archived in 2023)... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/spurious-correlations-0-2-is-on-cran--vertfhcft og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/VertFHcfT.png og:image:alt: Spurious correlations 0.2 is on CRAN! og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Spurious correlations 0.2 is on CRAN! **[R-bloggers](https://daily.dev/sources/rbloggers)** · 4 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary The spuriouscorrelations R package version 0.2 is now on CRAN. It preserves datasets from Tyler Vigen's famous spurious correlations website (archived in 2023) for educational use. The package includes examples like the correlation between pool drownings and Nicolas Cage films, with code demonstrations for plotting, reshaping data to long format, and standardizing variables using base R and the tinyplot library. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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