R Dataset / Package ISLR / Auto
On this R-data statistics page, you will find information about the Auto data set which pertains to Auto Data Set. The Auto data set is found in the ISLR R package. You can load the Auto data set in R by issuing the following command at the console data("Auto"). This will load the data into a variable called Auto. If R says the Auto data set is not found, you can try installing the package by issuing this command install.packages("ISLR") 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 Auto R data set. The size of this file is about 18,276 bytes.
Auto Data Set
Description
Gas mileage, horsepower, and other information for 392 vehicles.
Usage
Auto
Format
A data frame with 392 observations on the following 9 variables.
mpg
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miles per gallon
cylinders
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Number of cylinders between 4 and 8
displacement
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Engine displacement (cu. inches)
horsepower
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Engine horsepower
weight
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Vehicle weight (lbs.)
acceleration
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Time to accelerate from 0 to 60 mph (sec.)
year
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Model year (modulo 100)
origin
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Origin of car (1. American, 2. European, 3. Japanese)
name
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Vehicle name
The orginal data contained 408 observations but 16 observations with missing values were removed.
Source
This dataset was taken from the StatLib library which is maintained at Carnegie Mellon University. The dataset was used in the 1983 American Statistical Association Exposition.
References
Games, G., Witten, D., Hastie, T., and Tibshirani, R. (2013) An Introduction to Statistical Learning with applications in R, www.StatLearning.com, Springer-Verlag, New York
Examples
pairs(Auto) attach(Auto) hist(mpg)
Dataset imported from https://www.r-project.org.