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HistData (version 0.9-3)

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')

Monthly Downloads

5,820

Version

0.9-3

License

GPL

Maintainer

Michael Friendly

Last Published

April 9th, 2025

Functions in HistData (0.9-3)

Breslau

Halley's Breslau Life Table
Bowley

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

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

Halley's Life Table
Langren

van Langren's Data on Longitude Distance between Toledo and Rome
HistData-package

Data sets from the History of Statistics and Data Visualization
EdgeworthDeaths

Edgeworth's Data on Death Rates in British Counties
Guerry

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

Waite's data on Patterns in Fingerprints
GaltonFamilies

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

W. Stanley Jevons' data on numerical discrimination
Galton

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

Florence Nightingale's data on deaths from various causes in the Crimean War
Michelson

Michelson's Determinations of the Velocity of Light
Minard

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

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

Pollen Data Challenge
Prostitutes

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

Trial of the Pyx
Mayer

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

Statistics of Deadly Quarrels
OldMaps

Latitudes and Longitudes of 39 Points in 11 Old Maps
Saturn

Laplace's Saturn data.
PearsonLee

Pearson and Lee's data on the heights of parents and children classified by gender
PolioTrials

Polio Field Trials Data
Yeast

Student's (1906) Yeast Cell Counts
Wheat

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

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

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

Draw John Snow's Map of Cholera in London
Virginis

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

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

Chest measurements of Scottish Militiamen
Arbuthnot

Arbuthnot's data on male and female birth ratios
Cavendish

Cavendish's Determinations of the Density of the Earth
CushnyPeebles

Cushny-Peebles Data: Soporific Effects of Scopolamine Derivatives
Armada

La Felicisima Armada
CholeraDeaths1849

Daily Deaths from Cholera and Diarrhaea in England, 1849
Cholera

William Farr's Data on Cholera in London, 1849