R Dataset / Package car / Pottery
On this R-data statistics page, you will find information about the Pottery data set which pertains to Chemical Composition of Pottery. The Pottery data set is found in the car R package. You can load the Pottery data set in R by issuing the following command at the console data("Pottery"). This will load the data into a variable called Pottery. If R says the Pottery data set is not found, you can try installing the package by issuing this command install.packages("car") and then attempt to reload the data with the library() command. If you need to download R, you can go to the R project website. You can download a CSV (comma separated values) version of the Pottery R data set. The size of this file is about 987 bytes.
Chemical Composition of Pottery
Description
The data give the chemical composition of ancient pottery found at four sites in Great Britain. They appear in Hand, et al. (1994), and are used to illustrate MANOVA in the SAS Manual. (Suggested by Michael Friendly.)
Usage
Pottery
Format
A data frame with 26 observations on the following 6 variables.
Site
-
a factor with levels
AshleyRails
Caldicot
IsleThorns
Llanedyrn
Al
-
Aluminum
Fe
-
Iron
Mg
-
Magnesium
Ca
-
Calcium
Na
-
Sodium
Source
Hand, D. J., Daly, F., Lunn, A. D., McConway, K. J., and E., O. (1994) A Handbook of Small Data Sets. Chapman and Hall.
Examples
Pottery
Dataset imported from https://www.r-project.org.