R: Zoo Data Set

Zoo {seriation} | R Documentation

## Zoo Data Set

### Description

A database containing characteristics of different animals. The database was created and donated by Richard S. Forsyth and is available from the UCI Machine Learning Repository (Newman et al, 1998).

### Usage

    data("Zoo")

### Format

A data frame with 101 observations on the following 17 variables.

`hair`

  {0, 1}

`feathers`

  {0, 1}

`eggs`

  {0, 1}

`milk`

  {0, 1}

`airborne`

  {0, 1}

`aquatic`

  {0, 1}

`predator`

  {0, 1}

`toothed`

  {0, 1}

`backbone`

  {0, 1}

`breathes`

  {0, 1}

`venomous`

  {0, 1}

`fins`

  {0, 1}

`legs`

  Numeric (set of values: {0, 2, 4, 5, 6, 8})

`tail`

  {0, 1}

`domestic`

  {0, 1}

`catsize`

  {0, 1}

`class`

  a factor with levels `amphibian` `bird` `fish` `insect` `invertebrate` `mammal` `reptile`

### Source

D.J. Newman, S. Hettich, C.L. Blake and C.J. Merz (1998): UCI Repository of machine learning databases, https://www.ics.uci.edu/~mlearn/MLRepository.html, University of California, Irvine, Dept. of Information and Computer Sciences.

### Examples

    data("Zoo")
    x <- scale(Zoo[, -17])

    d <- dist(x)
    pimage(d)

    order <- seriate(d, method = "tsp")
    pimage(d, order)

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