R Instructions: Linear Relationships

To open R with the dataset preloaded, right-click here and choose "Save Target As" to download the file to your computer. Then find the downloaded file and double-click it to open it in R.

The data have been loaded into the data frame a. Enter the command a to see the data. The variables in a are animal, gestation, and longevity.

Notice that the correlation between gestation and longevity has changed.