| % File src/library/datasets/man/discoveries.Rd |
| % Part of the R package, https://www.R-project.org |
| % Copyright 1995-2007 R Core Team |
| % Distributed under GPL 2 or later |
| |
| \name{discoveries} |
| \docType{data} |
| \alias{discoveries} |
| \title{Yearly Numbers of Important Discoveries} |
| \description{ |
| The numbers of \dQuote{great} inventions and scientific |
| discoveries in each year from 1860 to 1959. |
| } |
| \usage{discoveries} |
| \format{A time series of 100 values.} |
| \source{ |
| The World Almanac and Book of Facts, 1975 Edition, pages 315--318. |
| } |
| \references{ |
| McNeil, D. R. (1977) |
| \emph{Interactive Data Analysis}. |
| Wiley. |
| } |
| \examples{ |
| require(graphics) |
| plot(discoveries, ylab = "Number of important discoveries", |
| las = 1) |
| title(main = "discoveries data set") |
| } |
| \keyword{datasets} |