[R] father and son heights

[Chuck Cleland]

Marc Schwartz wrote:
> ...
> Found it here:
> 
> http://stat-www.berkeley.edu/users/juliab/141C/pearson.dat
> 
> It consists of 1,078 pairs of father (col 1) and son (col 2) paired
> data.  Used to not only show Pearson correlation, but also used to
> demonstrate Regression to the Mean, or as Galton called it, Regression
> Towards Mediocrity.
> 
> You can save the page as a text file, then read it into R via
> read.table().

Or read it directly from that location with

galton <- 
read.table("http://stat-www.berkeley.edu/users/juliab/141C/pearson.dat", 
sep=" ")[,-1]

names(galton) <- c("fheight", "sheight")

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