Lifeboats: Lifeboats on the Titanic
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Lifeboats

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Lifeboats on the Titanic

Description

Data from Mersey (1912) about the 18 (out of 20) lifeboats launched before the sinking of the S. S. Titanic.

Usage

data("Lifeboats")

Format

A data frame with 18 observations and 8 variables.

launch: launch time in "POSIXt" format.
side: factor. Side of the boat.
boat: factor indicating the boat.
crew: number of male crew members on board.
men: number of men on board.
women: number of women (including female crew) on board.
total: total number of passengers.
cap: capacity of the boat.

Source

M. Friendly (2000), Visualizing Categorical Data: http://euclid.psych.yorku.ca/ftp/sas/vcd/catdata/lifeboat.sas

References

L. Mersey (1912), Report on the loss of the “Titanic” (S. S.). Parliamentary command paper 6452.

M. Friendly (2000), Visualizing Categorical Data. SAS Institute, Cary, NC.

Examples

data("Lifeboats")
attach(Lifeboats)
ternaryplot(
  Lifeboats[,4:6],
  pch = ifelse(side == "Port", 1, 19),
  col = ifelse(side == "Port", "red", "blue"),
  id  = ifelse(men / total > 0.1, as.character(boat), NA),
  prop_size = 2,
  dimnames_position = "edge",
  main = "Lifeboats on the Titanic"
)
grid_legend(0.8, 0.9, c(1, 19), c("red", "blue"),
  c("Port", "Starboard"), title = "SIDE")
detach(Lifeboats)

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