R/data-penelope.R

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

#' Guesses at the weight of Penelope (a cow)
#'
#' The data was collected by the Planet Money podcast to test a theory about
#' crowd-sourcing. Penelope's actual weight was 1,355 pounds.
#'
#' @name penelope
#' @docType data
#' @format A data frame with 17,184 observations on the following variable.
#' \describe{
#'   \item{weight}{Guesses of Penelope's weight, in pounds.}
#' }
#' @source \url{https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2015/08/07/429720443/17-205-people-guessed-the-weight-of-a-cow-heres-how-they-did}
#' @keywords datasets
#' @examples
#'
#' library(ggplot2)
#'
#' ggplot(penelope, aes(x = weight)) +
#'   geom_histogram(binwidth = 250)
#'
#' summary(penelope$weight)
"penelope"