ade4 (version 1.2-2)

tortues: Morphological Study of the Painted Turtle

Description

This data set gives a morphological description (4 characters) of 48 turtles.

Usage

data(tortues)

format

a data frame with 48 rows and 4 columns (length (mm), maximum width(mm), height (mm), gender).

source

Jolicoeur, P. and Mosimann, J. E. (1960) Size and shape variation in the painted turtle. A principal component analysis. Growth, 24, 339--354.

Examples

data(tortues)
xyz <- as.matrix(tortues[,1:3])
ref <- -svd(xyz)$u[,1]
pch0 <- c(1,20)[as.numeric(tortues$sex)]
plot(ref, xyz[,1], ylim = c(40,180), pch = pch0)
abline(lm(xyz[,1]~ -1 + ref))
points(ref,xyz[,2], pch = pch0)
abline(lm(xyz[,2]~ -1 + ref))
points(ref,xyz[,3], pch = pch0)
abline(lm(xyz[,3]~ -1 + ref))