Data Frame Example - "cars"

Q

What is the Data Frame Example, "cars"?

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A

"cars" is a built-in data frame example in R environment. "cars" has two columns: "speed" and "dist". Each row records an instance of the stopping distance of a car driving at a given speed. Note that the data were recorded in the 1920s.

1. Basic info on "cars":

> cars
   speed dist
1      4    2
2      4   10
3      7    4
4      7   22
5      8   16
6      9   10
...

> typeof(cars)
[1] "list"

> dim(cars)
[1] 50  2

2. Get some statistics on "cars":

> mean(cars[[1]])
[1] 15.4

> mean(cars[, "speed"])
[1] 15.4

> mean(cars[[2]])
[1] 42.98

> max(cars[[2]])
[1] 120

> max(cars[, "dist"])
[1] 120

 

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