austpop {DAAG}R Documentation

Population figures for Australian States and Territories

Description

Population figures for Australian states and territories for 1917, 1927, ..., 1997.

Usage

austpop

Format

This data frame contains the following columns:

year
a numeric vector
NSW
New South Wales population counts
Vic
Victoria population counts
Qld
Queensland population counts
SA
South Australia population counts
WA
Western Australia population counts
Tas
Tasmania population counts
NT
Northern Territory population counts
ACT
Australian Capital Territory population counts
Aust
Population counts for the whole country

Source

Australian Bureau of Statistics

Examples

print("Looping - Example 1.7")

growth.rates <- numeric(8)
for (j in seq(2,9)) {
    growth.rates[j-1] <- (austpop[9, j]-austpop[1, j])/austpop[1, j] }
growth.rates <- data.frame(growth.rates)
row.names(growth.rates) <- names(austpop[c(-1,-10)])
  # Note the use of row.names() to name the rows of the data frame
growth.rates

pause()
print("Avoiding Loops - Example 1.7b")

sapply(austpop[,-c(1,10)], function(x){(x[9]-x[1])/x[1]})

pause()
print("Plot - Example 1.8a")
attach(austpop)
plot(year, ACT, type="l") # Join the points ("l" = "line")
detach(austpop)

pause()
print("Exerice 1.12.9")
attach(austpop)
oldpar <- par(mfrow=c(2,4))  
for (i in 2:9){
plot(austpop[,1], log(austpop[, i]), xlab="Year",
    ylab=names(austpop)[i], pch=16, ylim=c(0,10))}
par(oldpar) 
detach(austpop)


[Package DAAG version 0.76 Index]