PrimateMetabolism: Primate Metabolic Rates

Description Format Source References Examples

Description

Body mass (g) and metabolic rate (watts) for 17 species of primates.

Format

A data frame with 17 observations on the following 2 variables.

mass

mass (g)

bmr

metabolic rate (watts)

Source

Heusner, A.A. 1991. Size and power in mammals. Journal of Experimental Biology 160: 25-54.

References

http://jeb.biologists.org/cgi/content/abstract/160/1/25

Examples

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str(PrimateMetabolism)
xyplot(bmr ~ mass, PrimateMetabolism)
xyplot(bmr ~ mass, PrimateMetabolism, scales=list(log=TRUE))

Example output

Loading required package: nlme
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Attaching package: 'dplyr'

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    collapse

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    filter, lag

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    intersect, setdiff, setequal, union

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The following objects are masked from 'package:ggplot2':

    GeomErrorbarh, geom_errorbarh


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	learnr::run_tutorial("introduction", package = "ggformula")
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Loading required package: mosaicData
Loading required package: Matrix

The 'mosaic' package masks several functions from core packages in order to add 
additional features.  The original behavior of these functions should not be affected by this.

Note: If you use the Matrix package, be sure to load it BEFORE loading mosaic.

Attaching package: 'mosaic'

The following object is masked from 'package:Matrix':

    mean

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    stat

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    IQR, binom.test, cor, cor.test, cov, fivenum, median, prop.test,
    quantile, sd, t.test, var

The following objects are masked from 'package:base':

    max, mean, min, prod, range, sample, sum

'data.frame':	17 obs. of  2 variables:
 $ mass: num  4670 1020 206 190 105 ...
 $ bmr : num  11.57 2.56 0.73 0.86 0.55 ...

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