Zoo database

Description

A database containing characteristics of different animals. The database was created and donated by Richard S. Forsyth.

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, http://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)