On this R-data statistics page, you will find information about the cabbages data set which pertains to Data from a cabbage field trial. The cabbages data set is found in the MASS R package. You can load the cabbages data set in R by issuing the following command at the console data("cabbages"). This will load the data into a variable called cabbages. If R says the cabbages data set is not found, you can try installing the package by issuing this command install.packages("MASS") 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 cabbages R data set. The size of this file is about 1,156 bytes.

Data from a cabbage field trial

Description

The cabbages data set has 60 observations and 4 variables

Usage

cabbages

Format

This data frame contains the following columns:

Cult

Factor giving the cultivar of the cabbage, two levels: c39 and c52.

Date

Factor specifying one of three planting dates: d16, d20 or d21.

HeadWt

Weight of the cabbage head, presumably in kg.

VitC

Ascorbic acid content, in undefined units.

Source

Rawlings, J. O. (1988) Applied Regression Analysis: A Research Tool. Wadsworth and Brooks/Cole. Example 8.4, page 219. (Rawlings cites the original source as the files of the late Dr Gertrude M Cox.)

References

Venables, W. N. and Ripley, B. D. (1999) Modern Applied Statistics with S-PLUS. Third Edition. Springer.

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