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HistData (version 1.0.0)

Data Sets from the History of Statistics and Data Visualization

Description

The 'HistData' package provides a collection of small data sets that are interesting and important in the history of statistics and data visualization. The goal of the package is to make these available, both for instructional use and for historical research. Some of these present interesting challenges for graphics or analysis in R.

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install.packages('HistData')

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1.0.0

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GPL

Maintainer

Michael Friendly

Last Published

November 30th, 2025

Functions in HistData (1.0.0)

HistData-package

Data sets from the History of Statistics and Data Visualization
GaltonFamilies

Galton's data on the heights of parents and their children, by child
Galton

Galton's data on the heights of parents and their children
Guerry

Data from A.-M. Guerry, "Essay on the Moral Statistics of France"
Langren

van Langren's Data on Longitude Distance between Toledo and Rome
Jevons

W. Stanley Jevons' data on Numerical Discrimination
HalleyLifeTable

Halley's Life Table
EdgeworthDeaths

Edgeworth's Data on Death Rates in British Counties
Fingerprints

Waite's data on Patterns in Fingerprints
DrinksWages

Elderton and Pearson's (1910) data on drinking and wages
Macdonell

Macdonell's Data on Height and Finger Length of Criminals, used by Gosset (1908)
PolioTrials

Polio Field Trials Data
PearsonLee

Pearson and Lee's data on the Heights of Parents and Children by Gender
Mayer

Mayer's Data on the Libration of the Moon.
Nightingale

Florence Nightingale's data on deaths in the Crimean War
Playfair1824

Playfair's Linear Chronology
Pollen

Pollen Data Challenge
Michelson

Michelson's Determinations of the Velocity of Light
Minard

Data from Minard's famous graphic map of Napoleon's march on Moscow
OldMaps

Latitudes and Longitudes of 39 Points in 11 Old Maps
Prostitutes

Parent-Duchatelet's time-series data on the number of prostitutes in Paris
Virginis

John F. W. Herschel's Data on the Orbit of the Twin Stars \(\gamma\) Virginis
Quarrels

Statistics of Deadly Quarrels
SnowMap

Draw John Snow's Map of Cholera in London
Yeast

Student's (1906) Yeast Cell Counts
Saturn

Laplace's Saturn data.
Wheat

Playfair's Data on Wages and the Price of Wheat
ZeaMays

Darwin's Heights of Cross- and Self-fertilized Zea May Pairs
Pyx

Trial of the Pyx
Snow

John Snow's Map and Data on the 1854 London Cholera Outbreak
Dactyl

Edgeworth's counts of dactyls in Virgil's Aeneid
Bowley

Bowley's data on values of British and Irish trade, 1855-1899
Cavendish

Cavendish's Determinations of the Density of the Earth
Armada

La Felicisima Armada
Breslau

Halley's Breslau Life Table
Cholera

William Farr's Data on Cholera in London, 1849
CushnyPeebles

Cushny-Peebles Data: Soporific Effects of Scopolamine Derivatives
CholeraDeaths1849

Daily Deaths from Cholera and Diarrhaea in England, 1849
ChestSizes

Chest measurements of Scottish Militiamen
Arbuthnot

Arbuthnot's Data on Male and Female Birth Ratios