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Scrape stage data from procyclingstats.com.

Source: R/racedata.R
racedata.Rd

This function is for internal use by cyclingscraper to retrieve stage-level data.

Usage

racedata(race, year, progress = TRUE, sleep = 1)

Arguments

race

A character race identifier. See below for details.

year

A number corresponding to requested race year with the format: YYYY

progress

Logical value indicating whether function should print progress. Default is TRUE.

sleep

A number corresponding to seconds of sleep time between HTML requests to ensure that servers are not overloaded. Minimum value is 1 (second) which is also the default.

Value

a dataframe containing stage-level data for races in year with the following variables included: race, year, stage, races, stage_num, stage_type, date, departure, arrival, parcours_type, distance, vertical_meters, profile_score, startlist_quality, avg_speed_winner, won_how, win_type and km_solo.

Details

The race parameter accepts the following inputs:

  • "tdf" (Tour de France)

  • "giro" (Giro d'Italia)

  • "vuelta" (La Vuelta ciclista a España)

  • "dauphine" (Critérium du Dauphiné)

  • "suisse" (Tour de Suisse)

  • "tirreno" (Tirreno-Adriatico)

  • "parisnice" (Paris-Nice)

  • "romandie" (Tour de Romandie)

  • "catalunya" (Volta Ciclista a Catalunya)

  • "pologne" (Tour de Pologne)

  • "basque" (Itzulia Basque Country)

Examples

#' The example is not evaluated due to long run time. Remove `if (FALSE) {}` to run.

if (FALSE) { # \dontrun{
racedata("tdf", 2022)
} # }