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Top performances in the Decathlon from 1985 to 2006.
Description
The point scoring system for the Decathlon last changed in 1985. Best annual performances of 6800 points and over for a twenty-one year period after the new rules were introduced were downloaded from the excellent Estonian website Decathlon2000. Handtimed performances were not included. Names with accents have been simplified.
Usage
data(Decathlon)Format
A data frame with 7968 observations on the following 24 variables.
Totalpointsthe total points achieved over all 10 events
DecathleteNameDecathlete's name
NationalityDecathlete's nationality
m100Time for the 100 metres (secs)
LongjumpDistance jumped (metres)
ShotputDistance putting the shot (metres)
HighjumpHeight jumped (metres)
m400Time for the 400 metres (secs)
m110hurdlesTime for the 110 metres hurdles (secs)
DiscusDistance throwing the discus (metres)
PolevaultHeight achieved (metres)
JavelinDistance throwing the javelin (metres)
m1500Time for the 1500 metres (secs)
yearEventYear of performance
P100mPoints for performance in 100 metres
PljPoints for performance in long jump
PspPoints for performance in putting the shot
PhjPoints for performance in high jump
P400mPoints for performance in 400 metres
P110hPoints for performance in 110 metres hurdles
PpvPoints for performance in pole vault
PdtPoints for performance in discus
PjtPoints for performance in javelin
P1500Points for performance in 1500 metres
Source
Examples
data(Decathlon, package="GDAdata")
summary(Decathlon[, grep("P.*", names(Decathlon))])
library(ggplot2)
ggplot(Decathlon, aes(Plj)) + geom_histogram()
ggplot(Decathlon, aes(P100m, Plj)) + geom_point()