R Dataset / Package MASS / topo
On this R-data statistics page, you will find information about the topo data set which pertains to Spatial Topographic Data. The topo data set is found in the MASS R package. You can load the topo data set in R by issuing the following command at the console data("topo"). This will load the data into a variable called topo. If R says the topo data set is not found, you can try installing the package by issuing this command install.packages("MASS") 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 topo R data set. The size of this file is about 618 bytes.
Spatial Topographic Data
Description
The topo
data frame has 52 rows and 3 columns, of topographic heights within a 310 feet square.
Usage
topo
Format
This data frame contains the following columns:
x
-
x coordinates (units of 50 feet)
y
-
y coordinates (units of 50 feet)
z
-
heights (feet)
Source
Davis, J.C. (1973) Statistics and Data Analysis in Geology. Wiley.
References
Venables, W. N. and Ripley, B. D. (2002) Modern Applied Statistics with S. Fourth edition. Springer.
Dataset imported from https://www.r-project.org.