Hello, Penguins!

Data

For this analysis we’ll use the penguins dataset from the palmerpenguins package. (Gorman, Williams, and Fraser 2014).

Rows: 344
Columns: 8
$ species           <fct> Adelie, Adelie, Adelie, Adelie, Adelie, Adelie, Adel…
$ island            <fct> Torgersen, Torgersen, Torgersen, Torgersen, Torgerse…
$ bill_length_mm    <dbl> 39.1, 39.5, 40.3, NA, 36.7, 39.3, 38.9, 39.2, 34.1, …
$ bill_depth_mm     <dbl> 18.7, 17.4, 18.0, NA, 19.3, 20.6, 17.8, 19.6, 18.1, …
$ flipper_length_mm <int> 181, 186, 195, NA, 193, 190, 181, 195, 193, 190, 186…
$ body_mass_g       <int> 3750, 3800, 3250, NA, 3450, 3650, 3625, 4675, 3475, …
$ sex               <fct> male, female, female, NA, female, male, female, male…
$ year              <int> 2007, 2007, 2007, 2007, 2007, 2007, 2007, 2007, 2007…

Species

Figure 1 is a scatter plot of species of penguins

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A scatterplot of penguin's bill depth and length, colored by species of penguins. There is a relatively strong, linear association
Figure 1: A scatterplot of penguin’s bill depth and length, colored by species of penguins.

Penguins

Table 1 shows the first 10 penguins from the dataset.

Table 1: Information on the first 10 penguins.
species island bill_length_mm bill_depth_mm
Adelie Torgersen 39.1 18.7
Adelie Torgersen 39.5 17.4
Adelie Torgersen 40.3 18.0
Adelie Torgersen NA NA
Adelie Torgersen 36.7 19.3
Adelie Torgersen 39.3 20.6
Adelie Torgersen 38.9 17.8
Adelie Torgersen 39.2 19.6
Adelie Torgersen 34.1 18.1
Adelie Torgersen 42.0 20.2

References

Gorman, Kristen B., Tony D. Williams, and William R. Fraser. 2014. “Ecological Sexual Dimorphism and Environmental Variability Within a Community of Antarctic Penguins (Genus Pygoscelis).” Edited by André Chiaradia. PLoS ONE 9 (3): e90081. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0090081.