Decathlon: 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)

Arguments

Format

A data frame with 7968 observations on the following 24 variables.

Totalpoints: the total points achieved over all 10 events
DecathleteName: Decathlete's name
Nationality: Decathlete's nationality
m100: Time for the 100 metres (secs)
Longjump: Distance jumped (metres)
Shotput: Distance putting the shot (metres)
Highjump: Height jumped (metres)
m400: Time for the 400 metres (secs)
m110hurdles: Time for the 110 metres hurdles (secs)
Discus: Distance throwing the discus (metres)
Polevault: Height achieved (metres)
Javelin: Distance throwing the javelin (metres)
m1500: Time for the 1500 metres (secs)
yearEvent: Year of performance
P100m: Points for performance in 100 metres
Plj: Points for performance in long jump
Psp: Points for performance in putting the shot
Phj: Points for performance in high jump
P400m: Points for performance in 400 metres
P110h: Points for performance in 110 metres hurdles
Ppv: Points for performance in pole vault
Pdt: Points for performance in discus
Pjt: Points for performance in javelin
P1500: Points for performance in 1500 metres

Source

http://www.decathlon2000.com

Examples

Run this code

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()

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