The data set contains five measurements made on 342 penguins which are classified into three species.
Usage
data(penguins)
Arguments
Format
A data frame with 342 observations and 5 variables, which are described as follows.
species
Penguin species (Chinstrap, Adélie, or Gentoo)
culmen_length_mm
Culmen length (mm)
culmen_depth_mm
Culmen depth (mm)
flipper_length_mm
Flipper length (mm)
body_mass_g
Body mass (g)
Details
Data were collected and made available by Dr. Kristen Gorman and the Palmer Station, Antarctica LTER, a member of the Long Term Ecological Research Network.
The categorical variables 'island' and 'sex' have been removed from the original dataset, as well as the incomplete observations on the five variables reported herein.
References
Gorman, K.B., Williams T.D., Fraser W.R. (2014). Ecological sexual dimorphism and environmental variability within a community of Antarctic penguins (genus Pygoscelis). PLoS ONE, 9(3), e90081.