islands {datasets} | R Documentation

## Areas of the World's Major Landmasses

### Description

The areas in thousands of square miles of the landmasses which exceed 10,000 square miles.

### Usage

    islands

### Format

A named vector of length 48.

### Source

The World Almanac and Book of Facts, 1975, page 406.

### References

McNeil, D. R. (1977) Interactive Data Analysis. Wiley.

### Examples

    require(graphics)
    dotchart(log(islands, 10),
       main = "islands data: log10(area) (log10(sq. miles))")
    dotchart(log(islands[order(islands)], 10),
       main = "islands data: log10(area) (log10(sq. miles))")

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