marathon {openintro}

New York City Marathon Times (outdated)

Description

Marathon times of male and female winners of the New York City Marathon 1970-1999. See nyc_marathon for a more updated dataset. We recommend not using this dataset since the data source has been taken off the web.

Usage

marathon

Format

A data frame with 60 observations on the following 3 variables.

year

Year

gender

Gender

time

Running time (in hours)

Source

Data source has been removed.

Examples

library(ggplot2)

ggplot(marathon, aes(x = time)) +
  geom_histogram(binwidth = 0.15)

ggplot(marathon, aes(y = time, x = gender)) +
  geom_boxplot()