penguins {PUGMM}

Penguins

Description

The data set contains five measurements made on 342 penguins which are classified into three species.

Usage

data(penguins)

Format

A data frame with 342 observations and 5 variables, which are described as follows.

species

Penguin species (Chinstrap, Adélie, or Gentoo)

culmen_length_mm

Culmen length (mm)

culmen_depth_mm

Culmen depth (mm)

flipper_length_mm

Flipper length (mm)

body_mass_g

Body mass (g)

Details

Data were collected and made available by Dr. Kristen Gorman and the Palmer Station, Antarctica LTER, a member of the Long Term Ecological Research Network. The categorical variables 'island' and 'sex' have been removed from the original dataset, as well as the incomplete observations on the five variables reported herein.

Source

Dataset downloaded from Kaggle https://www.kaggle.com/code/parulpandey/penguin-dataset-the-new-iris.

References

Gorman, K.B., Williams T.D., Fraser W.R. (2014). Ecological sexual dimorphism and environmental variability within a community of Antarctic penguins (genus Pygoscelis). PLoS ONE, 9(3), e90081.

Examples

data(penguins)