Fastest times for the Alpe d'Huez stage of the Tour de France cycle race, plus some contextual information on year and drug use allegations.
A data frame with the following columns.
Character time of ride in the form M' S".
Numeric time of ride in minutes.
Name of rider.
Year of race.
Nationality of rider.
Have allegations of drug use been made against the
rider? In alpe_d_huez the values are "Y" or "N"; in
alpe_d_huez2 this is a logical vector.
William Hogan william.hogan@amd.com compiled the data from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alpe_d%27Huez. Richard Cotton richierocks@gmail.com made some modifications while importing it into R.