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Forbes2000 {HSAUR} | R Documentation

## The Forbes 2000 Ranking of the World's Biggest Companies (Year 2004)

### Description

The Forbes 2000 list is a ranking of the world's biggest companies, measured by sales, profits, assets and market value.

### Usage

    data("Forbes2000")

### Format

A data frame with 2000 observations on the following 8 variables.

rank

  the ranking of the company.

name

  the name of the company.

country

  a factor giving the country the company is situated in.

category

  a factor describing the products the company produces.

sales

  the amount of sales of the company in billion USD.

profits

  the profit of the company in billion USD.

assets

  the assets of the company in billion USD.

marketvalue

  the market value of the company in billion USD.

### Source

http://www.forbes.com, assessed on November 26th, 2004.

### Examples

    data("Forbes2000", package = "HSAUR")
    summary(Forbes2000)
    ### number of countries
    length(levels(Forbes2000$country))
    ### number of industries
    length(levels(Forbes2000$category))

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