toxins.and.cancer {nutshell} | R Documentation |
This data set contains informaion on the volume of toxic chemicals released in each state during 2006, deaths from cancer during 2008, and the surface area of each state.
data(toxins.and.cancer)
A data frame with 41 observations on the following 15 variables.
State
Alabama
Alaska
Arizona
...total_toxic_chemicals
total_on_site
air_on_site
other_on_site
off_site
Surface_Area
new_total
new_breast
new_lung
deaths_total
deaths_breast
deaths_lung
Population
State_Abbrev
AK
, AL
, AR
...This data is used as an example in the book "R in a Nutshell," from O'Reilly Media.
This data was taken from several tables in the Statistical Abstract of the United States. You can download this data from http://www.census.gov/compendia/statab
data(toxins.and.cancer) attach(toxins.and.cancer) plot(total_toxic_chemicals/Surface_Area,deaths_total/Population) plot(air_on_site/Surface_Area,deaths_lung/Population)