Zoo {seriation}R Documentation

Zoo database

Description

A database containing characteristics of different animals. The database was created and donated by Richard S. Forsyth.

Usage

data("Zoo")

Format

A data frame with 101 observations on the following 17 variables.

hair
{0, 1}
feathers
{0, 1}
eggs
{0, 1}
milk
{0, 1}
airborne
{0, 1}
aquatic
{0, 1}
predator
{0, 1}
toothed
{0, 1}
backbone
{0, 1}
breathes
{0, 1}
venomous
{0, 1}
fins
{0, 1}
legs
Numeric (set of values: {0, 2, 4, 5, 6, 8})
tail
{0, 1}
domestic
{0, 1}
catsize
{0, 1}
class
a factor with levels amphibian bird fish insect invertebrate mammal reptile

Source

D.J. Newman, S. Hettich, C.L. Blake and C.J. Merz (1998): UCI Repository of machine learning databases, http://www.ics.uci.edu/~mlearn/MLRepository.html, University of California, Irvine, Dept. of Information and Computer Sciences.

Examples

data("Zoo")
x <- scale(Zoo[, -17])

d <- dist(x)
pimage(d)

order <- seriate(d, method = "tsp")
pimage(d, order)

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