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olympicAthletes 0.5.10

CRAN release: 2026-07-31

  • CRAN resubmission: the license is now declared as plain CC BY 4.0 and the LICENSE file has been removed. The package adds no restrictions beyond CC BY 4.0, so per CRAN the file is unnecessary. The upstream data-source attribution it carried is already recorded in the README, in citation("olympicAthletes"), and in the @source fields of each dataset’s help page.

olympicAthletes 0.5.9

  • Replace the \dontrun{} block in the olympic_athletes example with @examplesIf, so the dplyr/tidyr example runs whenever those Suggests packages are installed (per CRAN policy on runnable examples).
  • citation("olympicAthletes") now returns all three entries the README promises: the package plus its two upstream data sources (the rgriff23 ‘Olympic_history’ dataset and Olympedia).
  • Refresh the README and vignette dataset listings to cover all 14 shipped datasets (volleyball_athletes, curling_athletes, and season_counts were missing).
  • Fix the PDF manual build on CRAN’s win-builder (R-devel): the editions and olympic_athletes docs cited native-script host-city names (Cyrillic, CJK, and Hangul examples such as the native forms of Moskva, Tokyo, Beijing, and PyeongChang) that pdflatex cannot typeset. The docs now list only the romanized forms; Latin-1 diacritics (e.g. “Athína”, “München”) are retained.

olympicAthletes 0.5.8

  • CRAN preparation. No data changes — every dataset is retained. Brought the source tarball back under CRAN’s 5 MB limit (5.13 MB -> 4.80 MB) by resizing the oversized man/figures/logo.png (885x1024, 512 KB -> 480 px, 184 KB); the full-resolution master is kept at the repo-root hex.png.
  • Added Language: en-US and an inst/WORDLIST so spelling::spell_check_package() runs clean (the flagged words were all proper nouns and British spellings, not typos).
  • Wrapped the Olympedia URL in DESCRIPTION with angle brackets and added a cran-comments.md for submission.
  • R CMD check --as-cran now reports 0 errors, 0 warnings, and only the routine new-submission / CC-BY-license NOTE.

olympicAthletes 0.5.7

  • Add season_counts (2 rows): athlete-event row counts per Olympic season, pre-counted so plotting exercises can contrast geom_bar() (counts raw rows) with geom_col() (plots pre-counted values) without base-R counting code.

olympicAthletes 0.5.6

  • Removed olympic_athletes_2000_2026 (1.4 MB — the second-largest file in the package) to bring the built package back under CRAN’s 5 MB source-package guideline. It was a pure subset of olympic_athletes (year >= 2000); recreate it any time with olympic_athletes |> filter(year >= 2000). The ModernDive exercises that used it now use team_sport_athletes, athletics_athletes, or an explicit filter().
  • Removed olympic_athletes_1960 (referenced nowhere in the book, exercises, or teaching materials); recreate with olympic_athletes |> filter(year == 1960, season == "Summer").

olympicAthletes 0.5.5

  • Add three exercise-support subsets so ModernDive Chapter 2 exercises (which predate dplyr) never need base-R subsetting workarounds: usa_summer_medals (30 rows — one per Summer Games the USA attended; note the boycotted 1980 Games have no row), art_competitions_athletes (3,578 rows — the 1912-1948 Art Competitions entrants), and team_sport_athletes (10,912 rows — Basketball, Volleyball, and Curling combined, for cross-group distribution comparisons).

olympicAthletes 0.5.4

  • Renamed recent_olympic_athletes to olympic_athletes_2000_2026 for a clearer, time-explicit name. The data is unchanged (year >= 2000, i.e. the 2000–2026 Games).

olympicAthletes 0.5.3

  • Add volleyball_athletes (4,792 rows) and curling_athletes (961 rows) convenience subsets, parallel to the existing basketball_athletes / gymnastics_athletes, for ModernDive Chapter 5+ regression examples.

olympicAthletes 0.5.2

  • Recovered missing noc/team (country) values: rows where the country was unknown but the same athlete (id) appears in another Games with a known country are now backfilled (unambiguous cases only). Reduces NA noc from 10,094 to 3,907 rows; the rest are athletes who never appear with any known country, or who competed for more than one NOC, and are deliberately left NA.

olympicAthletes 0.5.1

  • New dataset paris_2024_top_medals: the ten countries that won the most total medals at the Paris 2024 Summer Games, in long format (one row per country-and-medal-type: country, noc, medal, count). A small, tidy dataset built for barplot examples (stacked, dodged, proportional) without filtering the ~90 medal-winning nations in medal_table.

olympicAthletes 0.5.0

  • New single-Games convenience datasets: olympic_athletes_2024 (Paris 2024 Summer Games) and olympic_athletes_1960 (Rome 1960 Summer Games). The 2024 subset is small enough to show over-plotting in a height vs weight scatterplot without the full dataset’s scale; paired with the near-complete 1960 subset it supports generational comparisons of athlete physiques. Both have columns identical to olympic_athletes.

olympicAthletes 0.4.0

  • New convenience datasets: athletics_athletes, gymnastics_athletes, and basketball_athletes (single-sport subsets of olympic_athletes), plus recent_olympic_athletes (Games since 2000, year >= 2000). These let teaching examples focus on one sport or recent Games without a filter(). Columns are identical to olympic_athletes.
  • olympic_athletes bio coverage substantially improved for the five olympedia-scraped editions (2018-2026). Team-event and multi-athlete-row athletes (Ice Hockey, Curling, Bobsleigh, Football, Hockey, Rowing, relays, doubles, pairs, …) previously had no age and mostly no height/weight; these bios have now been fetched from olympedia. age is now ~100% complete across all five editions, and height/ weight coverage rose accordingly (e.g. 2018 Winter height ~81% -> ~96%, Paris 2024 ~24% -> ~34%). The refresh is purely additive — row count, athlete roster, and medal counts are unchanged.
  • editions: Tokyo 2020 participants corrected 11,319 -> 11,318 to match olympedia’s revised count.

olympicAthletes 0.3.0

  • Breaking: all olympic_athletes columns are now lowercase snake_case (id, name, sex, age, height, weight, team, noc, games, year, season, sport, event, medal), matching the convention already used by medal_table and editions. The upstream rgriff23 TitleCase headers (ID, Name, NOC, …) are no longer preserved.
  • Host-city columns now come in both local-language and English forms. In olympic_athletes, the City column has been replaced by city_local_latin and city_english. In editions, city has been replaced by city_local_latin and city_english. city_local_latin always uses the Latin alphabet — Latin-script names keep their native diacritics ("Athína", "München", "Montréal", "Ciudad de México") and non-Latin-script names use a standard romanization ("Moskva", "Tokyo", "Beijing", "PyeongChang") rather than the city’s native script.

olympicAthletes 0.2.0

  • medal_table now covers every Olympic edition from Athens 1896 through Milano-Cortina 2026 (1,929 rows, up from 273). Two new columns: edition_id (Olympedia’s internal edition number) and notes.
  • editions now covers every Olympic edition from Athens 1896 through Milano-Cortina 2026, including cancelled Games (62 rows, up from 5).

olympicAthletes 0.1.0

Initial release.

  • olympic_athletes — 314,749 athlete-event rows spanning Athens 1896 to Milano-Cortina 2026, extending the rgriff23 Olympic_history dataset (1896-2016) with five additional editions scraped from olympedia.org.
  • medal_table — 273-row verified medal table for the five new editions (2018, 2020, 2022, 2024, 2026), with one row per (Games, NOC).
  • editions — 5-row metadata table covering opening/closing dates, participants, NOC count, medal events, and disciplines for each new edition.