R Dataset / Package mosaicData / SnowGR
On this R-data statistics page, you will find information about the SnowGR data set which pertains to Snowfall data for Grand Rapids, MI. The SnowGR data set is found in the mosaicData R package. You can load the SnowGR data set in R by issuing the following command at the console data("SnowGR"). This will load the data into a variable called SnowGR. If R says the SnowGR data set is not found, you can try installing the package by issuing this command install.packages("mosaicData") 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 SnowGR R data set. The size of this file is about 6,249 bytes.
Snowfall data for Grand Rapids, MI
Description
Official snowfall data by month and season for Grand Rapids, MI, going back to 1893.
Usage
data(SnowGR)
Format
A data frame with 119 observations of the following variables.
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SeasonStart
Year in which season started (July is start of season) -
SeasonEnd
Year in which season ended (June is end of season) -
Jul
Inches of snow in July -
Aug
Inches of snow in August -
Sep
Inches of snow in September -
Oct
Inches of snow in October -
Nov
Inches of snow in November -
Dec
Inches of snow in December -
Jan
Inches of snow in January -
Feb
Inches of snow in February -
Mar
Inches of snow in March -
Apr
Inches of snow in April -
May
Inches of snow in May -
Jun
Inches of snow in June -
Total
Inches of snow for entire season (July-June)
Source
These data were compiled by Laura Kapitula from data available at http://www.crh.noaa.gov/grr/climate/data/grr/snowfall/.
Examples
data(SnowGR) if (require(mosaic)) { favstats(SnowGR$Total) histogram(~Total, data=SnowGR) xyplot(Total ~ SeasonStart, SnowGR, type=c('p','smooth')) } if (require(reshape2)) { Snow2 <- melt(SnowGR, id=1:2) names(Snow2)[3:4] <- c('Time','Snow') bwplot(Snow ~ Time, Snow2) }
Dataset imported from https://www.r-project.org.