MASS (version 7.3-51.3)

crabs: Morphological Measurements on Leptograpsus Crabs

Description

The crabs data frame has 200 rows and 8 columns, describing 5 morphological measurements on 50 crabs each of two colour forms and both sexes, of the species Leptograpsus variegatus collected at Fremantle, W. Australia.

Usage

crabs

Arguments

Format

This data frame contains the following columns:

sp

species - "B" or "O" for blue or orange.

sex

as it says.

index

index 1:50 within each of the four groups.

FL

frontal lobe size (mm).

RW

rear width (mm).

CL

carapace length (mm).

CW

carapace width (mm).

BD

body depth (mm).

References

Venables, W. N. and Ripley, B. D. (2002) Modern Applied Statistics with S. Fourth edition. Springer.