doctorates: Doctorates Awarded in the United States, 2001-2006

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Description

This data set contains information on the number of doctorate degrees awarded in the United Sates between 2001 and 2006.

Usage

data(doctorates)

Format

A data frame with 6 observations on the following 7 variables.

year

a numeric vector

engineering

a numeric vector

science

a numeric vector

education

a numeric vector

health

a numeric vector

humanities

a numeric vector

other

a numeric vector

Details

This data set is used as an example in the book "R in a Nutshell" from O'Reilly Media.

Source

This data is from the Statistical Abstract of the United States. You can download the data from http://www.census.gov/compendia/statab/tables/09s0785.xls

Examples

data(doctorates)
# make this into a matrix:
doctorates.m <- as.matrix(doctorates[2:7])
rownames(doctorates.m) > doctorates.m
barplot(doctorates.m,beside=TRUE,horiz=TRUE,legend=TRUE,cex.names=.75)
barplot(t(doctorates.m),legend=TRUE,ylim=c(0,66000))

Example output

Loading required package: nutshell.bbdb
Loading required package: nutshell.audioscrobbler
logical(0)

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