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olympicAthletes: Olympic Athlete Event Data, Athens 1896 to Milano-Cortina 2026

A tidy, long-format dataset of every athlete-event participation in the modern Olympic Games, spanning Athens 1896 through Milano-Cortina 2026 (about 315,000 rows). Extends the rgriff23 'Olympic_history' dataset (1896-2016) with five additional editions scraped from Olympedia (<https://www.olympedia.org>): PyeongChang 2018, Tokyo 2020, Beijing 2022, Paris 2024, and Milano-Cortina 2026. Companion datasets cover edition-level metadata and verified medal tables for every edition from 1896 to 2026.

Version: 0.5.10
Depends: R (≥ 4.1)
Suggests: dplyr, knitr, pkgdown, rmarkdown, testthat (≥ 3.0.0), tidyr
Published: 2026-07-31
DOI: 10.32614/CRAN.package.olympicAthletes
Author: Chester Ismay [aut, cre]
Maintainer: Chester Ismay <chester.ismay at gmail.com>
BugReports: https://github.com/moderndive/olympicAthletes/issues
License: CC BY 4.0
URL: https://github.com/moderndive/olympicAthletes, https://moderndive.github.io/olympicAthletes/
NeedsCompilation: no
Language: en-US
Citation: olympicAthletes citation info
Materials: README, NEWS
CRAN checks: olympicAthletes results

Documentation:

Reference manual: olympicAthletes.html , olympicAthletes.pdf
Vignettes: Getting started with olympicAthletes (source, R code)

Downloads:

Package source: olympicAthletes_0.5.10.tar.gz
Windows binaries: r-devel: olympicAthletes_0.5.10.zip, r-release: olympicAthletes_0.5.10.zip, r-oldrel: olympicAthletes_0.5.10.zip
macOS binaries: r-release (arm64): olympicAthletes_0.5.10.tgz, r-oldrel (arm64): olympicAthletes_0.5.10.tgz, r-release (x86_64): olympicAthletes_0.5.10.tgz, r-oldrel (x86_64): olympicAthletes_0.5.10.tgz

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These binaries (installable software) and packages are in development.
They may not be fully stable and should be used with caution. We make no claims about them.