SpiderColonies: Social Spiders

In abd: The Analysis of Biological Data

Description

Web height above ground (cm) and colony size for 17 colonies of the spider Cryptophora citricola in Gabon.

Format

A data frame with 17 observations on the following 3 variables.

colony

identifier

height

height of web above ground (cm)

spiders

number of spiders in colony

Source

Rypstra, A. L. 1979. Foraging folks of spiders, a study of aggregate behavior in Cryptophora citricola Forskal (Araneae: Araneidae) in West Africa. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 5: 291-300.

Examples

str(SpiderColonies)
SpiderColonies

Example output

Loading required package: nlme
Loading required package: lattice
Loading required package: grid
Loading required package: mosaic
Registered S3 method overwritten by 'mosaic':
  method                           from   
  fortify.SpatialPolygonsDataFrame ggplot2

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.

Attaching package: ‘mosaic’

The following objects are masked from ‘package:dplyr’:

    count, do, tally

The following object is masked from ‘package:Matrix’:

    mean

The following object is masked from ‘package:ggplot2’:

    stat

The following objects are masked from ‘package:stats’:

    binom.test, cor, cor.test, cov, fivenum, IQR, 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  3 variables:
 $ colony : int  1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 ...
 $ height : int  90 150 270 320 180 380 200 120 240 120 ...
 $ spiders: int  17 32 96 195 372 135 83 36 85 20 ...
   colony height spiders
1       1     90      17
2       2    150      32
3       3    270      96
4       4    320     195
5       5    180     372
6       6    380     135
7       7    200      83
8       8    120      36
9       9    240      85
10     10    120      20
11     11    210      82
12     12    250      95
13     13    140      59
14     14    300      89
15     15    290     152
16     16    180      62
17     17    280      64

abd documentation built on May 2, 2019, 2:14 p.m.