R Dataset / Package Stat2Data / BlueJays
On this R-data statistics page, you will find information about the BlueJays data set which pertains to Blue Jays. The BlueJays data set is found in the Stat2Data R package. You can load the BlueJays data set in R by issuing the following command at the console data("BlueJays"). This will load the data into a variable called BlueJays. If R says the BlueJays data set is not found, you can try installing the package by issuing this command install.packages("Stat2Data") 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 BlueJays R data set. The size of this file is about 6,111 bytes.
Blue Jays
Description
Body measurements for a sample of blue jays
Format
A dataset with 123 observations on the following 9 variables.
BirdID | ID tag for bird |
KnownSex | Sex coded as F or M |
BillDepth | Thickness of the bill measured at the nostril (in mm) |
BillWidth | Width of the bill (in mm) |
BillLength | Length of the bill (in mm) |
Head | Distance from tip of bill to back of head (in mm) |
Mass | Body mass (in grams) |
Skull | Distance from base of bill to hack of skull (in mm) |
Sex | Sex coded as 0=female or 1=male |
Details
Body measurements for captured blue jays. Values are averaged for birds captured more than once.
Source
Data from Keith Tarvin, Department of Biology, Oberlin College
Dataset imported from https://www.r-project.org.