Help for package ComradesM

Type:

Package

Title:

The Comrades Marathon 1921 to 2019

Version:

0.1.1

Description:

Datasets related to the Comrades Marathon used in the book Antony Unwin (2024, ISBN:978-0367674007) "Getting (more out of) Graphics". The main dataset contains the times of every runner that finished in the time limit for each year the race was run.

Depends:

R (≥ 3.5)

License:

GPL-2 | GPL-3 [expanded from: GPL (≥ 2)]

Suggests:

tidyverse

NeedsCompilation:

Packaged:

2024-08-23 15:43:13 UTC; antonyunwin2

Author:

Antony Unwin [aut, cre, cph]

Maintainer:

Antony Unwin <unwin@math.uni-augsburg.de>

Repository:

CRAN

Date/Publication:

2024-08-23 16:10:05 UTC

ComradesM: Runtime and race information data analysed in Chapter 21, "Over 90 years running 90 km", of "Getting (more out of) Graphics"

Description

The runners' times of the Comrades Marathon in South Africa for the years 1921 to 2019 together with race distances over the years and route elevation data.

Details

Most of the datasets analysed in the book are available in GmooG and other R packages.

Author(s)

Antony Unwin unwin@math.uni-augsburg.de

Results of the Comrades Marathon race from 1921 to 2019

Description

Detailed individual results of the South African Comrades Marathon race

Usage

data(cmAll)

Format

A data frame with 445129 observations on the following 12 variables.

Direction: Direction of race, up (Durban to Pietermaritzburg) or down (Pietermaritzburg to Durban)
Bib: Race bib number
Name: Runner's name
Nation: Runner's nationality
Club: Runner's club
Time: Finish time in HH:MM:SS
Medal: Medal won
Category: Age group
OA Place: Place overall
Sex Place: Placing within male or female
Cat Place: Placing within age group
Year: Year of race

Details

This dataset and the datasets cmDist and cmE are all used in Chapter 21, "Over 90 years running 90 km"

Source

https://www.kaggle.com/datasets/suugaku/comrades-marathon-results

Examples

data(cmAll, package="ComradesM")
with(cmAll, table(Direction))

Distances run in the Comrades Marathon race from 1970 to 2019

Description

Distances run in the South African Comrades Marathon race since 1970

Usage

data(cmDist)

Format

A data frame with 50 observations on the following 3 variables.

Year: Year of race
Direction: Direction of race, up (Durban to Pietermaritzburg) or down (Pietermaritzburg to Durban)
Distance: Race distance in kms

Details

This dataset and the datasets cmAll and cmE are all used in Chapter 21, "Over 90 years running 90 km"

Source

https://www.comrades.com

Examples

data(cmDist, package="ComradesM")
with(cmDist, summary(Distance))

Elevations along the Comrades Marathon route

Description

Elevations along the planned Comrades Marathon route from Pietermaritzburg to Durban for 2020

Usage

data(cmE)

Format

A data frame with 109 observations on the following 3 variables.

Distance: Distance from Pietermaritzburg in kms
Elevation: Height above sea level in metres
Name: Name of point, if known

Details

This dataset and the datasets cmAll and cmDist are all used in Chapter 21, "Over 90 years running 90 km"

Source

Based on information provided by the Comrades Marathon Association.

Examples

data(cmE, package="ComradesM")
with(cmE, summary(Elevation))