W.W. Howells' Craniometric Data

W.W. Howells' craniometric data can be downloaded from this page. The files are plain text ASCII files with commas as a delimiter. These can be imported into almost any database program and can be easily opened in Excel. The easiest way to do this is to save the files with the extension *.csv and then they can be opened directly with Excel. The data can also be brought into “R” (see below). See Howells (1996, AJPA 101:441-442) for an explanation of the data.

HOWELLS	(702 KB) Howells world data set, comma-delimited
HOWTEST	(173 KB) bytes Howells test data set, comma-delimited file

OR, get the data set as an “R” object

Open an “Rgui” and paste the following:

download.file('http://konig.la.utk.edu/howell.txt','howells.txt')

howells<-dget('howells.txt')

And for the “test” data:

download.file('http://konig.la.utk.edu/R_howtest.txt','howells_test.txt')

howells.test<-dget('howells_test.txt')