On this R-data statistics page, you will find information about the SwimRecords data set which pertains to 100 m Swimming World Records. The SwimRecords data set is found in the mosaicData R package. You can load the SwimRecords data set in R by issuing the following command at the console data("SwimRecords"). This will load the data into a variable called SwimRecords. If R says the SwimRecords data set is not found, you can try installing the package by issuing this command install.packages("mosaicData") 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 SwimRecords R data set. The size of this file is about 898 bytes.

100 m Swimming World Records

Description

World records for men and women over time from 1905 through 2004.

Usage

data(SwimRecords)

Format

A data frame with 62 observations of the following variables.

• time time (in seconds) of the world record

• year Year in which the record was set

• sex a factor with levels M and F

Examples

data(SwimRecords)
if (require(lattice)) {
  xyplot(time~year, data=SwimRecords, groups=sex)
}

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