vcd (version 1.1-1)

Lifeboats: Lifeboats on the Titanic

Description

Data from Mersey (1912) about the 18 (out of 20) lifeboats launched before the sinking of the S. S. Titanic.

Usage

data("Lifeboats")

source

M. Friendly (2000), Visualizing Categorical Data: http://euclid.psych.yorku.ca/ftp/sas/vcd/catdata/lifeboat.sas

References

L. Mersey (1912), Report on the loss of the Titanic (S. S.). Parliamentary command paper 6452.

M. Friendly (2000), Visualizing Categorical Data. SAS Institute, Cary, NC.

Examples

data("Lifeboats")
attach(Lifeboats)
ternaryplot(
  Lifeboats[,4:6],
  pch = ifelse(side == "Port", 1, 19),
  col = ifelse(side == "Port", "red", "blue"),
  id  = ifelse(men / total > 0.1, as.character(boat), NA),
  prop_size = 2,
  dimnames_position = "edge",
  main = "Lifeboats on the Titanic"
)
grid_legend(0.8, 0.9, c(1, 19), c("red", "blue"),
  c("Port", "Starboard"), title = "SIDE")
detach(Lifeboats)