On this Picostat.com statistics page, you will find information about the races2000 data set which pertains to Scottish Hill Races Data - 2000. The races2000 data set is found in the DAAG R package. You can load the races2000 data set in R by issuing the following command at the console data("races2000"). This will load the data into a variable called races2000. If R says the races2000 data set is not found, you can try installing the package by issuing this command install.packages("DAAG") and then attempt to reload the data. If you need to download R, you can go to the R project website. You can download a CSV (comma separated values) version of the races2000 R data set. The size of this file is about 4,669 bytes.

Scottish Hill Races Data - 2000

Description

The record times in 2000 for 77 Scottish long distance races. We believe the data are, for the most part, trustworthy. However, the dist variable for Caerketton (record 58) seems to have been variously recorded as 1.5 mi and 2.5 mi.

Usage

races2000

Format

This data frame contains the following columns:

dist

distance, in miles (on the map)

climb

total height gained during the route, in feet

time

record time in hours

timef

record time in hours for females

type

a factor, with levels indicating type of race, i.e. hill, marathon, relay, uphill or other

Source

The Scottish Running Resource, http://www.hillrunning.co.uk

Examples

    pairs(races2000[,-5])

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Dataset imported from https://www.r-project.org.