Temperature played a key role in the French Army's casualties as the cold Russian winters took a toll.
Format
A data frame of 8 observations of four variables:
- date
date in the format of "YYYY-MM-DD"
- temp
temperature
- days
number of days on the retreat march
- lon
longitude
Source
https://vincentarelbundock.github.io/Rdatasets/doc/HistData/Minard.troops.html; https://www.cs.uic.edu/~wilkinson/TheGrammarOfGraphics/minard.txt
Details
Original documentation of this dataset directs the date to be set to the year 1815. Historical context suggests that the data is from 1812 and the year was set as such.
References
Minard, Charles Joseph. 1869. "Tableaux graphiques et cartes figuratives." Paris: Hachette.
See also
minard_cities for the city data and minard_troops for the troop data.
Examples
minard_temps
#> # A tibble: 8 × 4
#> date temp days lon
#> <date> <dbl> <dbl> <dbl>
#> 1 1815-10-18 0 6 37.6
#> 2 1815-10-24 0 6 36
#> 3 1815-11-09 -9 16 33.2
#> 4 1815-11-14 -21 5 32
#> 5 1815-11-28 -20 4 28.5
#> 6 1815-12-01 -24 3 27.2
#> 7 1815-12-06 -30 5 26.7
#> 8 1815-12-07 -26 1 25.3