waders                 package:MASS                 R Documentation

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_D_e_s_c_r_i_p_t_i_o_n:

     The `waders' data frame has 15 rows and 19 columns. The entries
     are counts of waders in summer.

_U_s_a_g_e:

     data(waders)

_F_o_r_m_a_t:

     This data frame contains the following columns (species)

     `_S_1' Oystercatcher

     `_S_2' White-fronted Plover

     `_S_3' Kitt Lutz's Plover

     `_S_4' Three-banded Plover

     `_S_5' Grey Plover

     `_S_6' Ringed Plover

     `_S_7' Bar-tailed Godwit

     `_S_8' Whimbrel

     `_S_9' Marsh Sandpiper

     `_S_1_0' Greenshank

     `_S_1_1' Common Sandpiper

     `_S_1_2' Turnstone

     `_S_1_3' Knot

     `_S_1_4' Sanderling

     `_S_1_5' Little Stint

     `_S_1_6' Curlew Sandpiper

     `_S_1_7' Ruff

     `_S_1_8' Avocet

     `_S_1_9' Black-winged Stilt

          The rows are the sites: A = Namibia North coast B = Namibia
          North wetland C = Namibia South coast D = Namibia South
          wetland E = Cape North coast F = Cape North wetland G = Cape
          West coast H = Cape West wetland I = Cape South coast J= Cape
          South wetland K = Cape East coast L = Cape East wetland M =
          Transkei coast N = Natal coast O = Natal wetland

_S_o_u_r_c_e:

     J.C. Gower and D.J. Hand (1996) Biplots Chapman & Hall Table 9.1.
     Quoted as from:

     R.W. Summers, L.G. Underhill, D.J. Pearson and D.A. Scott (1987)
     Wader migration systems in south and eastern Africa and western
     Asia. Wader Study Group Bulletin 49 Supplement, 15-34.

_E_x_a_m_p_l_e_s:

     library(mva)
     data(waders)
     plot(corresp(waders, nf=2))

