R Dataset / Package DAAG / austpop
On this R-data statistics page, you will find information about the austpop data set which pertains to Population figures for Australian States and Territories. The austpop data set is found in the DAAG R package. You can load the austpop data set in R by issuing the following command at the console data("austpop"). This will load the data into a variable called austpop. If R says the austpop data set is not found, you can try installing the package by issuing this command install.packages("DAAG") 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 austpop R data set. The size of this file is about 456 bytes.
Population figures for Australian States and Territories
Description
Population figures for Australian states and territories for 1917, 1927, ..., 1997.
Usage
austpop
Format
This data frame contains the following columns:
- year
-
a numeric vector
- NSW
-
New South Wales population counts
- Vic
-
Victoria population counts
- Qld
-
Queensland population counts
- SA
-
South Australia population counts
- WA
-
Western Australia population counts
- Tas
-
Tasmania population counts
- NT
-
Northern Territory population counts
- ACT
-
Australian Capital Territory population counts
- Aust
-
Population counts for the whole country
Source
Australian Bureau of Statistics
Examples
print("Looping - Example 1.7")growth.rates <- numeric(8) for (j in seq(2,9)) { growth.rates[j-1] <- (austpop[9, j]-austpop[1, j])/austpop[1, j] } growth.rates <- data.frame(growth.rates) row.names(growth.rates) <- names(austpop[c(-1,-10)]) # Note the use of row.names() to name the rows of the data frame growth.ratespause() print("Avoiding Loops - Example 1.7b")sapply(austpop[,-c(1,10)], function(x){(x[9]-x[1])/x[1]})pause() print("Plot - Example 1.8a") attach(austpop) plot(year, ACT, type="l") # Join the points ("l" = "line") detach(austpop)pause() print("Exerice 1.12.9") attach(austpop) oldpar <- par(mfrow=c(2,4)) for (i in 2:9){ plot(austpop[,1], log(austpop[, i]), xlab="Year", ylab=names(austpop)[i], pch=16, ylim=c(0,10))} par(oldpar) detach(austpop)
Dataset imported from https://www.r-project.org.