rivers                 package:base                 R Documentation

Lengths of Major North American Rivers

Description:

     This data set gives the lengths (in miles) of 141 ``major'' rivers
     in North America, as compiled by the US Geological Survey.

Usage:

     data(rivers)

Format:

     A vector containing 141 observations.

Source:

     World Almanac and Book of Facts, 1975, page 406.

References:

     McNeil, D. R. (1977) Interactive Data Analysis. New York: Wiley.

