olympics {VGAM}

2008 and 2012 Summer Olympic Final Medal Count Data

Description

Final medal count, by country, for the Summer 2008 and 2012 Olympic Games.

Usage

data(olym08)
data(olym12)

Format

A data frame with 87 or 85 observations on the following 6 variables.

rank

a numeric vector, overall ranking of the countries.

country

a factor.

gold

a numeric vector, number of gold medals.

silver

a numeric vector, number of silver medals.

bronze

a numeric vector, number of bronze medals.

totalmedal

a numeric vector, total number of medals.

Details

The events were held during (i) August 8–24, 2008, in Beijing; and (ii) 27 July–12 August, 2012, in London.

References

The official English website was/is http://en.beijing2008.cn and http://www.london2012.com. Help from Viet Hoang Quoc is gratefully acknowledged.

See Also

grc.

Examples

summary(olym08)
summary(olym12)
## maybe str(olym08) ; plot(olym08) ...
## Not run:  par(mfrow = c(1, 2))
myylim <- c(0, 55)
with(head(olym08, n = 8),
barplot(rbind(gold, silver, bronze),
   col = c("gold", "grey", "brown"),  # No "silver" or "bronze"!
#          "gold", "grey71", "chocolate4",
   names.arg = country, cex.names = 0.5, ylim = myylim,
   beside = TRUE, main = "2008 Summer Olympic Final Medal Count",
   ylab = "Medal count", las = 1,
   sub = "Top 8 countries; 'gold'=gold, 'grey'=silver, 'brown'=bronze"))
with(head(olym12, n = 8),
barplot(rbind(gold, silver, bronze),
   col = c("gold", "grey", "brown"),  # No "silver" or "bronze"!
   names.arg = country, cex.names = 0.5, ylim = myylim,
   beside = TRUE, main = "2012 Summer Olympic Final Medal Count",
   ylab = "Medal count", las = 1,
   sub = "Top 8 countries; 'gold'=gold, 'grey'=silver, 'brown'=bronze")) 
## End(Not run)