R Dataset / Package HSAUR / Forbes2000
On this R-data statistics page, you will find information about the Forbes2000 data set which pertains to The Forbes 2000 Ranking of the World's Biggest Companies (Year 2004) . The Forbes2000 data set is found in the HSAUR R package. You can load the Forbes2000 data set in R by issuing the following command at the console data("Forbes2000"). This will load the data into a variable called Forbes2000. If R says the Forbes2000 data set is not found, you can try installing the package by issuing this command install.packages("HSAUR") 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 Forbes2000 R data set. The size of this file is about 145,089 bytes.
The Forbes 2000 Ranking of the World's Biggest Companies (Year 2004)
Description
The Forbes 2000 list is a ranking of the world's biggest companies, measured by sales, profits, assets and market value.
Usage
data("Forbes2000")
Format
A data frame with 2000 observations on the following 8 variables.
- rank
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the ranking of the company.
- name
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the name of the company.
- country
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a factor giving the country the company is situated in.
- category
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a factor describing the products the company produces.
- sales
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the amount of sales of the company in billion USD.
- profits
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the profit of the company in billion USD.
- assets
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the assets of the company in billion USD.
- marketvalue
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the market value of the company in billion USD.
Source
http://www.forbes.com, assessed on November 26th, 2004.
Examples
data("Forbes2000", package = "HSAUR") summary(Forbes2000) ### number of countries length(levels(Forbes2000$country)) ### number of industries length(levels(Forbes2000$category))
Dataset imported from https://www.r-project.org.