R/data-mlb.R

In OpenIntroStat/openintro: Datasets and Supplemental Functions from 'OpenIntro' Textbooks and Labs

#' Salary data for Major League Baseball (2010)
#'
#' Salary data for Major League Baseball players in the year 2010.
#'
#'
#' @name mlb
#' @docType data
#' @format A data frame with 828 observations on the following 4 variables.
#' \describe{
#'   \item{player}{Player name}
#'   \item{team}{Team}
#'   \item{position}{Field position}
#'   \item{salary}{Salary (in $1000s)}
#'   }
#' @source \url{https://databases.usatoday.com/mlb-salaries/},
#' retrieved 2011-02-23.
#' @keywords datasets
#' @examples
#'
#'
#' # _____ Basic Histogram _____ #
#' hist(mlb$salary / 1000,
#'   breaks = 15,
#'   main = "", xlab = "Salary (millions of dollars)", ylab = "",
#'   axes = FALSE,
#'   col = "#22558844"
#' )
#' axis(1, seq(0, 40, 10))
#' axis(2, c(0, 500))
#' axis(2, seq(100, 400, 100), rep("", 4), tcl = -0.2)
#'
#' # _____ Histogram on Log Scale _____ #
#' hist(log(mlb$salary / 1000),
#'   breaks = 15,
#'   main = "", xlab = "log(Salary)", ylab = "",
#'   axes = FALSE, col = "#22558844"
#' )
#' axis(1) # , seq(0, 40, 10))
#' axis(2, seq(0, 300, 100))
#'
#' # _____ Box plot of log(salary) against position _____ #
#' boxPlot(log(mlb$salary / 1000), mlb$position, horiz = TRUE, ylab = "")
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