Forbes2000 {HSAUR} | R Documentation

## The Forbes 2000 Ranking of the World's Biggest Companies (Year 2004)

### Description

The Forbes 2000 list is a ranking of the world's biggest companies, measured by sales, profits, assets and market value.

### Usage

    data("Forbes2000")

### Format

A data frame with 2000 observations on the following 8 variables.

rank
  the ranking of the company.
name
  the name of the company.
country
  a factor giving the country the company is situated in.
category
  a factor describing the products the company produces.
sales
  the amount of sales of the company in billion USD.
profits
  the profit of the company in billion USD.
assets
  the assets of the company in billion USD.
marketvalue
  the market value of the company in billion USD.

### Source

http://www.forbes.com, assessed on November 26th, 2004.

### Examples

    data("Forbes2000", package = "HSAUR")
    summary(Forbes2000)
    ### number of countries
    length(levels(Forbes2000$country))
    ### number of industries
    length(levels(Forbes2000$category))

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