VGAM (version 0.9-3)

olympics: 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)

source

http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/979484/2008_summer_olympic_medal_count_total.html, http://www.london2012.com/medals/medal-count/.

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) ...
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"))