eggs: Bird eggs datatset.

In brouwern/compbio4all: Datasets and helpful functions for learning bioinformatics and computational biology

Description

A dataset on the shape of eggs. Original data extract from photographs of multiple eggs. Values in this dataset are averages.

Usage

eggs

Format

A data frame with 23 columns, including:

order

Taxonomic order

family

Taxonomic family

spp

Species

asymmetry

Index of how asymmetric the egg is

ellipticity

Index of how elliptical egg is

ave.length.com

Average length of egg in cm; com is typo

Source

http://science.sciencemag.org/content/356/6344/1249

References

Stoddard et al. 2017. Avian egg shape: Form, function, and evolution. Science. xxxx:xxx-xxx.

Examples

## Load packages

library(ggpubr)

ggscatter(data = eggs,
          y = "asymmetry",
          x = "ellipticity")

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