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\name{Orange}
\docType{data}
\alias{Orange}
\title{Growth of Orange Trees}
\description{
  The \code{Orange} data frame has 35 rows and 3 columns of records of
  the growth of orange trees.
}
\usage{Orange}
\format{
  An object of class
  \code{c("nfnGroupedData", "nfGroupedData", "groupedData", "data.frame")}
  containing the following columns:
  \describe{
    \item{\code{Tree}}{
      an ordered factor indicating the tree on which the measurement is
      made.  The ordering is according to increasing maximum diameter.
    }
    \item{\code{age}}{
      a numeric vector giving the age of the tree (days since 1968/12/31)
    }
    \item{\code{circumference}}{
      a numeric vector of trunk circumferences (mm).  This is probably
      \dQuote{circumference at breast height}, a standard measurement in
      forestry.
    }
  }
}
\details{
  This dataset was originally part of package \CRANpkg{nlme}, and that has
  methods (including for \code{[}, \code{as.data.frame}, \code{plot} and
  \code{print}) for its grouped-data classes.
}
\source{
  \bibinfo{R:Draper+Smith:1998}{note}{Exercise 24.N}
  \bibshow{R:Draper+Smith:1998,
    R:Pinheiro+Bates:2000}
}
\examples{
require(stats); require(graphics)
coplot(circumference ~ age | Tree, data = Orange, show.given = FALSE)
fm1 <- nls(circumference ~ SSlogis(age, Asym, xmid, scal),
           data = Orange, subset = Tree == 3)
plot(circumference ~ age, data = Orange, subset = Tree == 3,
     xlab = "Tree age (days since 1968/12/31)",
     ylab = "Tree circumference (mm)", las = 1,
     main = "Orange tree data and fitted model (Tree 3 only)")
age <- seq(0, 1600, length.out = 101)
lines(age, predict(fm1, list(age = age)))
}
\keyword{datasets}