taxa: taxa: Measurements of Different Parts of 120 Plants
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taxa	R Documentation

taxa: Measurements of Different Parts of 120 Plants

Description

This data set contains seven morphological variables measured on 120 plants. These measurements can be used to cluster the plants in the attempt to detect which plants that belong to the same plant taxonomy.

Usage

taxa

Format

A data frame with 120 observations (rows) and 7 variables (columns).

	Column name	Data type	Description	Values
`[,1]`	`Petals`	numeric	Petal width in cm	(4.069 - 8.445)
`[,2]`	`Internode`	numeric	Internode length	(25.10 - 30.98)
`[,3]`	`Sepal`	numeric	Sepal length in cm	(2.001 - 4.985)
`[,4]`	`Bract`	numeric	Bract length	(17.04 - 20.00)
`[,5]`	`Petiole`	numeric	Petiole length in cm	(7.032 - 11.878)
`[,6]`	`Leaf`	numeric	Leaf width in cm	(1.003 - 2.997)
`[,7]`	`Fruit`	numeric	Fruit size in cm	(7.005 - 7.986)

Details

In ⁠The R book⁠, the data also contains the response variable Taxon.

Source

⁠The R book⁠, M.J. Crawley, Wiley, 2007.

Examples


# A short summary of the variables
summary(taxa)

# Hierarchical Clustering
clust2 <- hclust(dist(taxa), method = "average")
plot(clust2, xlab = "", sub = "")

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