An R package containing two data sets scraped from Wikipedia (1 November 2022) on London Marathon winners, and general data. The two data sets can be joined by Year.
Install using:
remotes::install_github("nrennie/LondonMarathon")
Load the data sets with:
data(winners, package = "LondonMarathon")
data(london_marathon, package = "LondonMarathon")
| Column | Class | Description | Example |
|---|---|---|---|
| Category | character | Category of race | Men |
| Year | integer | Year | 1981 |
| Athlete | character | Name of the winner | Dick Beardsley (Tie) |
| Nationality | character | Nationality of the winner | United States |
| Time | character | Winning time | 02:11:48 |
| Column | Class | Description | Example |
|---|---|---|---|
| Date | character | Date of the race | 1981-03-29 |
| Year | integer | Year | 1981 |
| Applicants | integer | Number of people who applied | 20000 |
| Accepted | integer | Number of people accepted | 7747 |
| Starters | integer | Number of people who started | 7055 |
| Finishers | integer | Number of people who finished | 6255 |
| Raised | integer | Amount raised for charity (£ millions) | 46.5 |
| Official.charity | character | Official charity | SportsAid |
At the time of last update (24/04/2023), wheelchair men and wheelchair women winners data was missing for 2022 and 2023.
See the code in inst/plots.R to create these example plots.
The background photo in the hex sticker is from Benjamin Davies on Unsplash.