gala {asuR} | R Documentation |
There are 30 Galapagos islands and 7 variables in the dataset. The relationship between the number of plant species and several geographic variables is of interest. The original dataset contained several missing values which have been filled for convenience.
data(gala)
The dataset contains the following variables
Species
Endemics
Area
Elevation
Nearest
Scruz
Adjacent
original from the package faraway, but there tortoise instead of plant species
M. P. Johnson and P. H. Raven (1973) "Species number and endemism: The Galapagos Archipelago revisited" Science, 179, 893-895