Relationship between variables and MPG

Dzaringana Mate
24 May 2015

mtcars dataset

Deployed Apps

Below are the deployed apps

mtcars dataset - Description

Motor Trend Car Road Tests

  • The data was extracted from the 1974 Motor Trend US magazine, and comprises fuel consumption and 10 aspects of automobile design and performance for 32 automobiles (1973-74 models). Source
  • Henderson and Velleman (1981), Building multiple regression models interactively. Biometrics, 37, 391-411.
library(datasets)
head(mtcars, 3)
               mpg cyl disp  hp drat    wt  qsec vs am gear carb
Mazda RX4     21.0   6  160 110 3.90 2.620 16.46  0  1    4    4
Mazda RX4 Wag 21.0   6  160 110 3.90 2.875 17.02  0  1    4    4
Datsun 710    22.8   4  108  93 3.85 2.320 18.61  1  1    4    1

mtcars dataset - Format

A data frame with 32 observations on 11 variables.

Index Field Detail
[, 1] mpg Miles/(US) gallon
[, 2] cyl Number of cylinders
[, 3] disp Displacement (cu.in.)
[, 4] hp Gross horsepower
[, 5] drat Rear axle ratio
[, 6] wt Weight (lb/1000)
[, 7] qsec ¼ mile time
[, 8] vs V/S
[, 9] am Transmission (0 = automatic, 1 = manual)
[,10] gear Number of forward gears
[,11] carb Number of carburetors

Analysis - main code

  formulaTextPoint <- reactive({
    paste("mpg ~", "as.integer(", input$variable, ")")  })

  fit <- reactive({
    lm(as.formula(formulaTextPoint()), data=mpgData)  })
  ...
  output$fit <- renderPrint({
    summary(fit()) })

  output$mpgPlot <- renderPlot({
    with(mpgData, {
      plot(as.formula(formulaTextPoint()))
      abline(fit(), col=2)
    })  })