R/data-Basketball.R

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#' Heights and Weights of U.S. Basketball Players
#'
#' The dataset consists of the heights and weights of the 24 scoring leaders, 12 each from the U.S. Women’s and Men’s National Basketball Association, for the 2014 – 2015 season. These data are taken from the ESPN website at espn.com.
#'
#' @format A data frame with 20 rows and 6 variables:
#' \describe{
#'   \item{player}{name of player}
#'   \item{gender}{gender of player}
#'   \item{heightin}{height of player in inches}
#'   \item{weightlb}{weight of player in pounds}
#'   \item{games}{number of games played}
#'   \item{points}{average total points scored per game}
#' }
#' @source \url{https://www.espn.com/}
"Basketball"