This famous (Fisher's or Anderson's) iris data set gives the measurements in
centimeters of the variables sepal length and width and petal length and
width, respectively, for 50 flowers from each of 3 species of iris.
The species are Iris setosa, versicolor, and virginica.
This is a replication of datasets::iris as
dataset s3 class.
Format
iris is a data frame with 150 cases (rows) and 5 variables (columns) named Sepal.Length, Sepal.Width, Petal.Length, Petal.Width, and Species.
Source
Fisher, R. A. (1936) The use of multiple measurements in taxonomic problems. Annals of Eugenics, 7, Part II, p179–188.
The data were collected by Anderson, Edgar (1935). The irises of the Gaspe Peninsula, Bulletin of the American Iris Society, 59, 2–5.
Details
See datasets::iris for details.