precipitation {reldist}

Annual Precipitation in US Cities

Description

The average amount of precipitation (rainfall) in inches for each of 70 United States (and Puerto Rico) cities.

Usage

data(precipitation)

Format

A named vector of length 70.

Details

This is a clone of the precip R dataset to avoid a bug in R.

Source

Statistical Abstracts of the United States, 1975.

References

McNeil, D. R. (1977) Interactive Data Analysis. New York: Wiley.

Examples

require(graphics)
data(precipitation)
dotchart(precipitation[order(precipitation)], main="precipitation data")
title(sub = "Average annual precipitation (in.)")