Palmer Penguins
You can install the development version of palmerpenguins from GitHub
with:
devtools::install_github("openwashdata/palmerpenguins", dependencies = TRUE)If you prefer to work with the data outside of R, you can download individual datasets as CSV files.
- Right-click on the “Download CSV” link for the dataset you want.
- Select “Save Link As”
or “Download Linked File”
.
- Choose where you’d like to save the file on your computer.
| dataset | CSV |
|---|---|
| penguins | Download CSV |
library(palmerpenguins)The dataset penguins has 344 observations and 9 variables.
Variable Types: 3 character, 6 numeric
get("penguins") |>
head(3) |>
gt::gt() |>
gt::as_raw_html()|
rowid |
species |
island |
bill_length_mm |
bill_depth_mm |
flipper_length_mm |
body_mass_g |
sex |
year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|
1 |
Adelie |
Torgersen |
39.1 |
18.7 |
181 |
3750 |
male |
2007 |
|
2 |
Adelie |
Torgersen |
39.5 |
17.4 |
186 |
3800 |
female |
2007 |
|
3 |
Adelie |
Torgersen |
40.3 |
18.0 |
195 |
3250 |
female |
2007 |
For an overview of the variable names, see the following table.
|
variable_name |
variable_type |
description |
|---|---|---|
|
rowid |
integer |
Unique identifier assigned to each penguin observation. (Range: 1 to 344) |
|
species |
character |
Species classification of the penguin. (Examples: Adelie, Gentoo, Chinstrap) |
|
island |
character |
Location of the penguin observation on the island. (Examples: Torgersen, Biscoe, Dream) |
|
bill_length_mm |
numeric |
Bill length of the penguin measured in millimeters. (Range: 32.1 to 59.6) |
|
bill_depth_mm |
numeric |
Bill depth of the penguin measured in millimeters. (Range: 13.1 to 21.5) |
|
flipper_length_mm |
integer |
Flipper length of the penguin measured in millimeters. (Range: 172 to 231) |
|
body_mass_g |
integer |
Body mass of the penguin measured in grams. (Range: 2700 to 6300) |
|
sex |
character |
Biological sex of the penguin. (Examples: male, female, NA) |
|
year |
integer |
Year of the penguin observation. (Examples: 2007, 2008, 2009) |
Data are available as CC-BY.
#> To cite package 'palmerpenguins' in publications use:
#>
#> Massari N, Schöbitz L, Tilley E (2025). "palmerpenguins: Palmer Penguins." doi:10.32614/CRAN.package.palmerpenguins
#> <https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.palmerpenguins>, <https://openwashdata.github.io/palmerpenguins>.
#>
#> A BibTeX entry for LaTeX users is
#>
#> @Misc{massari_etall:2025,
#> title = {palmerpenguins: Palmer Penguins},
#> author = {Nicolo Massari and Lars Schöbitz and Elizabeth Tilley},
#> year = {2025},
#> doi = {10.32614/CRAN.package.palmerpenguins},
#> url = {https://openwashdata.github.io/palmerpenguins},
#> abstract = {The Palmer Penguins dataset contains penguins measurements.},
#> version = {0.0.1},
#> }