The data were recorded by F.H.C. Crick and B.D. Ripley, and analysed in Ripley (1977, 1981) and Diggle (1983). They are often used as a canonical example of an `ordered' point pattern.
data(cells)
"ppp"
representing the point pattern of cell centres.
See ppp.object
for details of the format.Ripley, B.D. (1977) Modelling spatial patterns (with discussion). Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series B 39, 172--212.
Ripley, B.D. (1981) Spatial statistics. John Wiley and Sons.