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)