The Forbes 2000 list is a ranking of the world's biggest companies, measured by sales, profits, assets and market value.
A data frame with 1995 observations on the following 9 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.
Use the following R code to directly access this dataset in R.