I agree with Steve and Achim that we should keep some examples with no
data frame. That's Objectively Simpler, whether or not it leads to
clutter in the wrong hands. As Steve points out, we have attach()
which is an excellent language feature - not to mention with().
I would go even further and s
A pragmatic solution could be to create a simple linear regression example
with variables in the global environment and then another example with a
data.frame.
The latter might be somewhat more complex, e.g., with several regressors
and/or mixed categorical and numeric covariates to illustrate
