Orange               package:datasets               R Documentation

Growth of Orange Trees

Description:

     The 'Orange' data frame has 35 rows and 3 columns of records of
     the growth of orange trees.

Usage:

     Orange

Format:

     This data frame contains the following columns:

     Tree an ordered factor indicating the tree on which the
          measurement is made.  The ordering is according to increasing
          maximum diameter.

     age a numeric vector giving the age of the tree (days since
          1968/12/31)

     circumference a numeric vector of trunk circumferences (mm).  This
          is probably "circumference at breast height", a standard
          measurement in forestry.


Source:

     Draper, N. R. and Smith, H. (1998), _Applied Regression Analysis
     (3rd ed)_, Wiley (exercise 24.N).

     Pinheiro, J. C. and Bates, D. M. (2000) _Mixed-effects Models in S
     and S-PLUS_, Springer.

Examples:

     require(stats); require(graphics)
     coplot(circumference ~ age | Tree, data = Orange, show.given = FALSE)
     fm1 <- nls(circumference ~ SSlogis(age, Asym, xmid, scal),
                data = Orange, subset = Tree == 3)
     plot(circumference ~ age, data = Orange, subset = Tree == 3,
          xlab = "Tree age (days since 1968/12/31)",
          ylab = "Tree circumference (mm)", las = 1,
          main = "Orange tree data and fitted model (Tree 3 only)")
     age <- seq(0, 1600, length.out = 101)
     lines(age, predict(fm1, list(age = age)))

