R Dataset / Package MASS / waders
On this R-data statistics page, you will find information about the waders data set which pertains to Counts of Waders at 15 Sites in South Africa. The waders data set is found in the MASS R package. You can load the waders data set in R by issuing the following command at the console data("waders"). This will load the data into a variable called waders. If R says the waders 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 waders R data set. The size of this file is about 1,096 bytes.
Counts of Waders at 15 Sites in South Africa
Description
The waders
data frame has 15 rows and 19 columns. The entries are counts of waders in summer.
Usage
waders
Format
This data frame contains the following columns (species)
S1
-
Oystercatcher
S2
-
White-fronted Plover
S3
-
Kitt Lutz's Plover
S4
-
Three-banded Plover
S5
-
Grey Plover
S6
-
Ringed Plover
S7
-
Bar-tailed Godwit
S8
-
Whimbrel
S9
-
Marsh Sandpiper
S10
-
Greenshank
S11
-
Common Sandpiper
S12
-
Turnstone
S13
-
Knot
S14
-
Sanderling
S15
-
Little Stint
S16
-
Curlew Sandpiper
S17
-
Ruff
S18
-
Avocet
S19
-
Black-winged Stilt
The rows are the sites:
A = Namibia North coastB = Namibia North wetlandC = Namibia South coastD = Namibia South wetlandE = Cape North coastF = Cape North wetlandG = Cape West coastH = Cape West wetlandI = Cape South coastJ= Cape South wetlandK = Cape East coastL = Cape East wetlandM = Transkei coastN = Natal coastO = Natal wetland
Source
J.C. Gower and D.J. Hand (1996) Biplots Chapman & Hall Table 9.1. Quoted as from:
R.W. Summers, L.G. Underhill, D.J. Pearson and D.A. Scott (1987) Wader migration systems in south and eastern Africa and western Asia. Wader Study Group Bulletin 49 Supplement, 15–34.
Examples
plot(corresp(waders, nf=2))
Dataset imported from https://www.r-project.org.