R Dataset / Package DAAG / worldRecords
On this R-data statistics page, you will find information about the worldRecords data set which pertains to Record times for track and road races, at August 9th 2006. The worldRecords data set is found in the DAAG R package. You can load the worldRecords data set in R by issuing the following command at the console data("worldRecords"). This will load the data into a variable called worldRecords. If R says the worldRecords data set is not found, you can try installing the package by issuing this command install.packages("DAAG") and then attempt to reload the data with the library() command. If you need to download R, you can go to the R project website. You can download a CSV (comma separated values) version of the worldRecords R data set. The size of this file is about 1,934 bytes.
Record times for track and road races, at August 9th 2006
Description
Record times for track and road races, at August 9th 2006
Usage
data(worldRecords)
Format
A data frame with 40 observations on the following 9 variables.
Distance
-
distance in kilometers
roadORtrack
-
a factor with levels
road
track
Place
-
place; a character vector
Time
-
time in minutes
Date
-
a Date
Details
For further details, and some additional details, see the web site that is the source of the data.
Source
http://www.gbrathletics.com/wrec.htm
Examples
data(worldRecords) xyplot(log(Time) ~ log(Distance), groups=roadORtrack, data=worldRecords) xyplot(log(Time) ~ log(Distance), groups=roadORtrack, data=worldRecords, type=c("p","r")) xyplot(log(Time) ~ log(Distance), groups=roadORtrack, data=worldRecords, type=c("p","smooth"))
Dataset imported from https://www.r-project.org.