On this R-data statistics page, you will find information about the discoveries data set which pertains to Yearly Numbers of Important Discoveries. The discoveries data set is found in the datasets R package. You can load the discoveries data set in R by issuing the following command at the console data("discoveries"). This will load the data into a variable called discoveries. If R says the discoveries data set is not found, you can try installing the package by issuing this command install.packages("datasets") and then attempt to reload the data. If you need to download R, you can go to the R project website. You can download a CSV (comma separated values) version of the discoveries R data set. The size of this file is about 723 bytes.

Yearly Numbers of Important Discoveries

Description

The numbers of “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) Interactive Data Analysis. Wiley.

Examples

require(graphics)
plot(discoveries, ylab = "Number of important discoveries",
     las = 1)
title(main = "discoveries data set")

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Dataset imported from https://www.r-project.org.