The numbers of “great” inventions and scientific
discoveries in each year from 1860 to 1959.
Usage
discoveries
Format
A time series of 100 values.
Source
The World Almanac and Book of Facts, 1975 Edition, pages 315–318.
References
McNeil, D. R. (1977)
Interactive Data Analysis.
Wiley.
Examples
require(graphics)
plot(discoveries, ylab = "Number of important discoveries",
las = 1)
title(main = "discoveries data set")
Results
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> library(datasets)
> png(filename="/home/ddbj/snapshot/RGM3/R_rel/result/datasets/discoveries.Rd_%03d_medium.png", width=480, height=480)
> ### Name: discoveries
> ### Title: Yearly Numbers of Important Discoveries
> ### Aliases: discoveries
> ### Keywords: datasets
>
> ### ** Examples
>
> require(graphics)
> plot(discoveries, ylab = "Number of important discoveries",
+ las = 1)
> title(main = "discoveries data set")
>
>
>
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>
> dev.off()
null device
1
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