openintro (version 1.7.1)

possum: possum

Description

Data representing possums in Australia and New Guinea. This is a copy of the data set by the same name in the DAAG package, however, the data set included here includes fewer variables.

Usage

data(possum)

Format

A data frame with 104 observations on the following 8 variables.

site

The site number where the possum was trapped.

pop

Population, either Vic (Victoria) or other (New South Wales or Queensland).

sex

Gender, either m (male) or f (female).

age

Age.

headL

Head length, in mm.

skullW

Skull width, in mm.

totalL

Total length, in cm.

tailL

Tail length, in cm.

References

http://www.openintro.org/

Examples

# NOT RUN {
data(possum)
par(mfrow=1:2)
plot(possum$headL, possum$skullW)
densityPlot(possum$totalL, possum$sex, key=c('f','m'),
	xlab='total length (cm)')
legend('topright', col=c('black', 'red'), lty=1:2, legend=c('f', 'm'))
# }