poweRof10 is a small package that scrapes data from athletics rankings website www.thepowerof10.info. I’m a big athletics fan and created poweRof10 for a bit of fun to analyse my own performances, but thought it might be worth sharing here. The package is still a little rough around the edges, but the basic functionality should work well enough!

Check out this blog post for some more examples.

Installation

Install from github with:

# install.packages("remotes")
remotes::install_github("hfshr/poweRof10")

Basic usage

You can get the rankings for a specific event/year/gender/age group using the get_event() function:

get_event(event = "100", agegroup = "ALL", gender = "M", year = 2016, top_n = 10) %>% 
  select(rank, perf, name, venue)
#>    rank  perf                   name               venue
#> 1     1  9.96            Joel Fearon             Bedford
#> 2     2 10.01          Richard Kilty              Hexham
#> 3        9.92                               Gavardo, ITA
#> 4     2 10.01          Chijindu Ujah Rio de Janeiro, BRA
#> 5        9.97                                 Birmingham
#> 6     4 10.04        James Ellington      Amsterdam, NED
#> 7        9.96                                 Birmingham
#> 8     4 10.04          Reece Prescod             Bedford
#> 9     6 10.08 Harry Aikines-Aryeetey        Loughborough
#> 10      10.02                                 Birmingham

Alternatively, you can search for an individual athlete and get their performance history with get_athlete():

get_athlete(fn = "Harry", sn = "Fisher", club = "Cardiff/Cardiff Met Uni") %>% 
  select(event, perf, pos, venue, date) %>% 
  head(10)
#>      event  perf pos         venue      date
#> 1   8.6KXC 31:56  40      Chepstow  8 Feb 20
#> 2  parkrun 17:33  16       Cardiff  5 Oct 19
#> 3   9.3KXC 35:28  69 Blaise Castle  7 Dec 19
#> 4      400 49.00   1     Sheffield 18 Feb 18
#> 5      400 49.16   1       Bedford  5 May 18
#> 6      400 49.32   5     Sheffield 18 Feb 18
#> 7      400 49.43   5       Bedford  6 May 18
#> 8      400 49.66   1     Sheffield 17 Feb 18
#> 9      400 49.86   1       Cardiff 27 Jan 18
#> 10     400 50.18   1       Cardiff 27 Jan 18

Acknowledgements

Thanks to the team that keep www.thepowerof10.info up and running, it’s an invaluable resource for many!

Disclaimer

This software is in no way affiliated, endorsed, or approved by www.thepowerof10.info or any of its affiliates.