The car.test.frame data frame has 49 rows and 9 columns, giving data on makes of cars taken from the April, 1990 issue of Consumer Reports. This is part of a larger dataset, some columns of which are given in cu.summary.
This data frame contains the following columns:
a numeric vector giving the list price in US dollars of a standard model
of origin, a factor with levels France, Germany, Japan , Japan/USA, Korea, Mexico, Sweden and USA
a numeric vector coded 1 to 5.
fuel consumption miles per US gallon, as tested.
a factor with levels Compact Large Medium Small Sporty Van
kerb weight in pounds.
the engine capacity (displacement) in litres.
the net horsepower of the vehicle.
Source
Consumer Reports, April, 1990, pp. 235–288 quoted in
John M. Chambers and Trevor J. Hastie eds. (1992) Statistical Models in S, Wadsworth and Brooks/Cole, Pacific Grove, CA, pp. 46–47.
Use the following R code to directly access this dataset in R.
