droughtsR Documentation

Periods Between Rain Events

Description

Data collected at Winnipeg International Airport (Canada) on periods (in days) between rain events.

Usage

droughts

Format

This data frame contains the following columns:

length

the length of time from the completion of the last rain event to the beginning of the next rain event.

year

the calendar year.

Examples

  boxplot(length ~ year, data=droughts)
  boxplot(log(length) ~ year, data=droughts)
  hist(droughts$length, main="Winnipeg Droughts", xlab="length (in days)")
  hist(log(droughts$length), main="Winnipeg Droughts", xlab="length (in days, log scale)")