R Dataset / Package DAAG / Cars93.summary
On this R-data statistics page, you will find information about the Cars93.summary data set which pertains to A Summary of the Cars93 Data set. The Cars93.summary data set is found in the DAAG R package. You can load the Cars93.summary data set in R by issuing the following command at the console data("Cars93.summary"). This will load the data into a variable called Cars93.summary. If R says the Cars93.summary 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 Cars93.summary R data set. The size of this file is about 162 bytes.
A Summary of the Cars93 Data set
Description
The Cars93.summary
data frame has 6 rows and 4 columns created from information in the Cars93
data set in the Venables and Ripley MASS package. Each row corresponds to a different class of car (e.g. Compact, Large, etc.).
Usage
Cars93.summary
Format
This data frame contains the following columns:
- Min.passengers
-
minimum passenger capacity for each class of car
- Max.passengers
-
maximum passenger capacity for each class of car
- No.of.cars
-
number of cars in each class
- abbrev
-
a factor with levels
C
Compact,L
Large,M
Mid-Size,Sm
Small,Sp
Sporty,V
Van
Source
Lock, R. H. (1993) 1993 New Car Data. Journal of Statistics Education 1(1)
References
MASS library
Examples
type <- Cars93.summary$abbrev type <- Cars93.summary[,4] type <- Cars93.summary[,"abbrev"] type <- Cars93.summary[[4]] # Take the object that is stored # in the fourth list element. type pause()attach(Cars93.summary) # R can now access the columns of Cars93.summary directly abbrev detach("Cars93.summary") pause()#To change the name of the \verb!abbrev! variable (the fourth column) names(Cars93.summary)[4] <- "code" pause()#To change all of the names, try names(Cars93.summary) <- c("minpass","maxpass","number","code")
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