iris3
Edgar Anderson's Iris Data
This famous (Fisher's or Anderson's) iris data set gives the measurements in centimeters of the variables sepal length and width and petal length and width, respectively, for 50 flowers from each of 3 species of iris. The species are Iris setosa, versicolor, and virginica.
Usage
iris iris3
Format
iris
is a data frame with 150 cases (rows) and 5 variables (columns) named Sepal.Length
, Sepal.Width
, Petal.Length
, Petal.Width
, and Species
.
iris3
gives the same data arranged as a 3-dimensional array of size 50 by 4 by 3, as represented by S-PLUS. The first dimension gives the case number within the species subsample, the second the measurements with names Sepal L.
, Sepal W.
, Petal L.
, and Petal W.
, and the third the species.
Source
Fisher, R. A. (1936) The use of multiple measurements in taxonomic problems. Annals of Eugenics, 7, Part II, 179–188.
The data were collected by Anderson, Edgar (1935). The irises of the Gaspe Peninsula, Bulletin of the American Iris Society, 59, 2–5.
References
Becker, R. A., Chambers, J. M. and Wilks, A. R. (1988) The New S Language. Wadsworth & Brooks/Cole. (has iris3
as iris
.)
See Also
matplot
some examples of which use iris
.
Examples
dni3 <- dimnames(iris3) ii <- data.frame(matrix(aperm(iris3, c(1,3,2)), ncol = 4, dimnames = list(NULL, sub(" L.",".Length", sub(" W.",".Width", dni3[[2]])))), Species = gl(3, 50, labels = sub("S", "s", sub("V", "v", dni3[[3]])))) all.equal(ii, iris) # TRUE