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sydney_hobart_times

Sydney to Hobart winning times

Description

Winning times for the Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race. An annual sail yacht race over 1170km, from Sydney's harbour, to Hobart in Tasmania. The race is infamous for the rough conditions, long distance, and large number of dropouts in some years. The data include the winning time, and the number of starting yachts, and the number of yachts reaching the finish.

Usage

sydney_hobart_times

Format

A data frame with 72 rows and 5 variables:

Year: integer Year race was held
Time: double Total time (days)
fleet_start: integer Number yachts at start
fleet_finish: integer Number yachts at finish
Time_record: double Record race up to this year

Source

<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sydney_to_Hobart_Yacht_Race>

Examples

data(sydney_hobart_times)
with(sydney_hobart_times, {
    plot(Year, Time)
    lines(Year, Time_record, type='s', col="red")
})

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v0.1.1

CC0

Authors

Remko Duursma [aut, cre], Jeff Powell [ctb]

Initial release