If you are looking for an easy way to download all the example data used Applied Spatial Data Analysis with R, this script was recently posted on the R-sig-Geo Mailing list by one of the book's authors, Roger Bivand.


#! /bin/bash
export ASDAR="http://www.asdar-book.org/"
export ASDAR_BUNDLES="${ASDAR}bundles"
CHAPTERS="hello cm vis die cm2 csdacm sppa geos lat1 lat2 dismap"
for ch in $CHAPTERS; do
if test -d ${ch}
then cd ${ch}
else
mkdir ${ch}
cd ${ch}
fi
wget -N "${ASDAR_BUNDLES}/${ch}_bundle.zip"
unzip -o "${ch}_bundle.zip"
cd ..
done


Simply save it as a shellscript, create a directory for the data, like ASDAR or alike and execute from there.

Note - if you are on Mac, here is a compiled version of wget for Leopard.