cars.txt

cars                 package:openintro                 R Documentation

cars

Description:

     A data frame with 54 rows and 6 columns. The columns represent the
     variables ‘type’, ‘price’, ‘mpgCity’, ‘driveTrain’, ‘passengers’,
     ‘weight’ for a sample of 54 cars from 1993. This data is a subset
     of the ‘Cars93’ data set from the ‘MASS’ package.

Usage:

     cars <- read.csv("https://roualdes.us/data/cars.csv")

Format:

     A data frame with 54 observations on the following 6 variables.

     ‘type’ The vehicle type with levels ‘large’, ‘midsize’, and
          ‘small’.

     ‘price’ Vehicle price (USD).

     ‘mpgCity’ Vehicle mileage in city (miles per gallon).

     ‘driveTrain’ Vehicle drive train with levels ‘4WD’, ‘front’, and
          ‘rear’.

     ‘passengers’ The vehicle passenger capacity.

     ‘weight’ Vehicle weight (lbs).

Details:

     These cars represent a random sample for 1993 models that were in
     both _Consumer Reports_ and _PACE Buying Guide_. Only vehicles of
     type ‘'small'’, ‘'midsize'’, and ‘'large'’ were include.

     Further description can be found in Lock (1993). Use the URL <
     http://www.amstat.org/publications/jse/v1n1/datasets.lock.html>.

Source:

     Lock, R. H. (1993) 1993 New Car Data. _Journal of Statistics
     Education_ 1(1).

References:

     < http://www.openintro.org/>