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mtcars Dataset: Car Performance Data

The mtcars dataset contains fuel consumption and vehicle design specifications for 32 cars from 1974. It includes 11 variables such as miles per gallon, number of cylinders, horsepower, weight and transmission type. The data was originally published in a 1974 issue of Motor Trend magazine and has since been used in many statistical analyses and examples.

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mtcars Dataset: Car Performance Data

The mtcars dataset contains fuel consumption and vehicle design specifications for 32 cars from 1974. It includes 11 variables such as miles per gallon, number of cylinders, horsepower, weight and transmission type. The data was originally published in a 1974 issue of Motor Trend magazine and has since been used in many statistical analyses and examples.

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mtcars {datasets} R Documentation

Motor Trend Car Road Tests

Description

The data was extracted from the 1974 Motor Trend US magazine, and comprises fuel consumption and 10
aspects of automobile design and performance for 32 automobiles (1973–74 models).

Usage

mtcars

Format

A data frame with 32 observations on 11 (numeric) variables.

[, 1] mpg Miles/(US) gallon


[, 2] cyl Number of cylinders
[, 3] disp Displacement ([Link].)
[, 4] hp Gross horsepower
[, 5] drat Rear axle ratio
[, 6] wt Weight (1000 lbs)
[, 7] qsec 1/4 mile time
[, 8] vs Engine (0 = V-shaped, 1 = straight)
[, 9] am Transmission (0 = automatic, 1 = manual)
[,10] gear Number of forward gears
[,11] carb Number of carburetors

Note

Henderson and Velleman (1981) comment in a footnote to Table 1: ‘Hocking [original transcriber]'s
noncrucial coding of the Mazda's rotary engine as a straight six-cylinder engine and the Porsche's flat engine
as a V engine, as well as the inclusion of the diesel Mercedes 240D, have been retained to enable direct
comparisons to be made with previous analyses.’

Source

Henderson and Velleman (1981), Building multiple regression models interactively. Biometrics, 37, 391–411.

Examples

require(graphics)
pairs(mtcars, main = "mtcars data", gap = 1/4)
coplot(mpg ~ disp | [Link](cyl), data = mtcars,
panel = [Link], rows = 1)
## possibly more meaningful, e.g., for summary() or bivariate plots:
mtcars2 <- within(mtcars, {
vs <- factor(vs, labels = c("V", "S"))
am <- factor(am, labels = c("automatic", "manual"))
cyl <- ordered(cyl)
gear <- ordered(gear)
carb <- ordered(carb)
})
summary(mtcars2)

[Package datasets version 3.6.0 Index]

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