waders                 package:MASS                 R Documentation

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_D_e_s_c_r_i_p_t_i_o_n:

     The 'waders' data frame has 15 rows and 19 columns. The entries
     are counts of waders in summer.

_U_s_a_g_e:

     waders

_F_o_r_m_a_t:

     This data frame contains the following columns (species)

     '_S_1' Oystercatcher

     '_S_2' White-fronted Plover

     '_S_3' Kitt Lutz's Plover

     '_S_4' Three-banded Plover

     '_S_5' Grey Plover

     '_S_6' Ringed Plover

     '_S_7' Bar-tailed Godwit

     '_S_8' Whimbrel

     '_S_9' Marsh Sandpiper

     '_S_1_0' Greenshank

     '_S_1_1' Common Sandpiper

     '_S_1_2' Turnstone

     '_S_1_3' Knot

     '_S_1_4' Sanderling

     '_S_1_5' Little Stint

     '_S_1_6' Curlew Sandpiper

     '_S_1_7' Ruff

     '_S_1_8' Avocet

     '_S_1_9' Black-winged Stilt


     The rows are the sites:

     A = Namibia North coast
      B = Namibia North wetland
      C = Namibia South coast
      D = Namibia South wetland
      E = Cape North coast
      F = Cape North wetland
      G = Cape West coast
      H = Cape West wetland
      I = Cape South coast
      J= Cape South wetland
      K = Cape East coast
      L = Cape East wetland
      M = Transkei coast
      N = Natal coast
      O = Natal wetland

_S_o_u_r_c_e:

     J.C. Gower and D.J. Hand (1996) _Biplots_ Chapman & Hall Table
     9.1. Quoted as from:

     R.W. Summers, L.G. Underhill, D.J. Pearson and D.A. Scott (1987)
     Wader migration systems in south and eastern Africa and western
     Asia. _Wader Study Group Bulletin_ *49* Supplement, 15-34.

_E_x_a_m_p_l_e_s:

     plot(corresp(waders, nf=2))

