SwimmingSpeed: Swimming Speed of Various Animals

SwimmingSpeedR Documentation

Swimming Speed of Various Animals

Description

A data set containing the swimming speed in centimeters per second as a function of the length in centimeters of various animals

Usage

data(SwimmingSpeed)

Details

A data frame with 17 observations on the following variables.

  • Length (in centimeters)

  • Speed (swimming speed of animal in centimeters per second)

Source

Swimming speed and length of animals from page 152. McMahon, Thomas A., and John Tyler Bonner. On Size and Life. New York: Scientific American Library, 1983.

Examples

data(SwimmingSpeed)


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