alpe_d_huez {learningr}

Alpe d'Huez

Description

Fastest times for the Alpe d'Huez stage of the Tour de France cycle race, plus some contextual information on year and drug use allegations.

Format

A data frame with the following columns.

Time

Character time of ride in the form M' S".

NumericTime

Numeric time of ride in minutes.

Name

Name of rider.

Year

Year of race.

Nationality

Nationality of rider.

DrugUse

Have allegations of drug use been made against the rider? In alpe_d_huez the values are "Y" or "N"; in alpe_d_huez2 this is a logical vector.

Note

The data was kindly compiled by William Hogan.

The dataset is not guaranteed to be error free. Please double check the data if you want to use it for something serious.

References

William Hogan [e-mail] compiled the data from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alpe_d%27Huez. Richard Cotton [e-mail] made some modifications while importing it into R.