orings {DAAG}R Documentation

Challenger O-rings Data

Description

Record of the number and type of O-ring failures prior to the tragic Challenger mission in January, 1986.

Usage

data(orings)

Format

This data frame contains the following columns:

Temperature
O-ring temperature for each test firing or actual launch of the shuttle rocket engine
Erosion
Number of erosion incidents
Blowby
Number of blowby incidents
Total
Total number of incidents

Source

Presidential Commission on the Space Shuttle Challenger Accident, Vol. 1, 1986: 129-131.

References

Tufte, E. R. 1997. Visual Explanations. Graphics Press, Cheshire, Connecticut, U.S.A.

Examples

data(orings)
oldpar <- par(mfrow=c(1,2))
plot(Total~Temperature, data = orings[c(1,2,4,11,13,18),]) # the 
               # observations included in the pre-launch charts
plot(Total~Temperature, data = orings)
par(oldpar)

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