| % File src/library/datasets/man/islands.Rd |
| % Part of the R package, https://www.R-project.org |
| % Copyright 1995-2007 R Core Team |
| % Distributed under GPL 2 or later |
| |
| \name{islands} |
| \docType{data} |
| \alias{islands} |
| \title{Areas of the World's Major Landmasses} |
| \description{ |
| The areas in thousands of square miles of the landmasses which exceed |
| 10,000 square miles. |
| } |
| \usage{islands} |
| \format{A named vector of length 48.} |
| \source{The World Almanac and Book of Facts, 1975, page 406.} |
| \references{ |
| McNeil, D. R. (1977) |
| \emph{Interactive Data Analysis}. |
| Wiley. |
| } |
| \examples{ |
| require(graphics) |
| dotchart(log(islands, 10), |
| main = "islands data: log10(area) (log10(sq. miles))") |
| dotchart(log(islands[order(islands)], 10), |
| main = "islands data: log10(area) (log10(sq. miles))") |
| } |
| \keyword{datasets} |