languages.spoken.europe {cluster.datasets}

Hartigan (1975) Languages Spoken in Europe

Description

The table presents the percentage of the population who claimed to speak a language well enough to be understood. This is Table 15.10 in Chapter 15 of Hartigan (1975) on page 290.

Usage

data(languages.spoken.europe)

Format

A data frame with 16 observations on the following 13 variables.

country

a character vector for the country

finnish

a numeric vector for speakers of Finnish

swedish

a numeric vector for speakers of Swedish

danish

a numeric vector for speakers of Danish

norwegian

a numeric vector for speakers of Norwegian

english

a numeric vector for speakers of English

german

a numeric vector for speakers of German

dutch

a numeric vector for speakers of Dutch

flemish

a numeric vector for speakers of Flemish

french

a numeric vector for speakers of French

italian

a numeric vector for speakers of Italian

spanish

a numeric vector for speakers of Spanish

portuguese

a numeric vector for speakers of Portuguese

Details

Hartigan suggests the use of direct joining for this data set.

Source

A Survey of Europe Today, The Readers' Digest Association Ltd, London.

SPAETH2 Cluster Analysis Datasets http://people.sc.fsu.edu/~jburkardt/datasets/spaeth2/spaeth2.html

References

Hartigan, J. A. (1975). Clustering Algorithms, John Wiley, New York.

Examples

data(languages.spoken.europe)