R/Shipping_losses.R

In LSTbook: Data and Software for "Lessons in Statistical Thinking"

#' Shipping losses in 1941 in the Atlantic
#'
#' A major theater of action in World War II was the
#' Atlantic ocean. Germany attempted through submarine and
#' aerial attacks to sink shipping supplying Britain through
#' the war. This table summarizes the losses in 1941.
#'
#' @usage data(Shipping_losses)
#'
#' @docType data
#'
#' @format 12 rows, one for each month of 1941
#' - month
#' - nships number of ships sunk
#' - tons gross tonnage of the ships sunk. This includes
#' both the ship and the cargo.
#' - country whether the ships were British, or belonged to
#' Allied or Neutral countries.
#'
#'
#' @source From W.S. Churchill (1952) *The Grand Alliance* a history of the Second World War. Houghton Mifflin Co. Boston. p. 782
"Shipping_losses"