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## An updated and expanded version of the mammals sleep dataset

### Description

This is an updated and expanded version of the mammals sleep dataset. Updated sleep times and weights were taken from V. M. Savage and G. B. West. A quantitative, theoretical framework for understanding mammalian sleep. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 104 (3):1051-1056, 2007.

### Usage

    msleep

### Format

A data frame with 83 rows and 11 variables

name

  common name

genus
vore

  carnivore, omnivore or herbivore?

order
conservation

  the conservation status of the animal

sleep_total

  total amount of sleep, in hours

sleep_rem

  rem sleep, in hours

sleep_cycle

  length of sleep cycle, in hours

awake

  amount of time spent awake, in hours

brainwt

  brain weight in kilograms

bodywt

  body weight in kilograms

### Details

Additional variables order, conservation status and vore were added from wikipedia.

[Package ggplot2 version 2.2.1 Index]