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palmerpenguins

Palmer Penguins

Installation

You can install the development version of palmerpenguins from GitHub with:

devtools::install_github("openwashdata/palmerpenguins", dependencies = TRUE)

Download as CSV Files

If you prefer to work with the data outside of R, you can download individual datasets as CSV files.

  1. Right-click on the “Download CSV” link for the dataset you want.
  2. Select “Save Link As” or “Download Linked File” .
  3. Choose where you’d like to save the file on your computer.
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Data

penguins

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)

License

Data are available as CC-BY.

Citation 

#> 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},
#>   }