Extract all registered racers from an event HTML file

This function extracts all racers by finding links with href="/people/" and returns structured data with core racer information, racer URLs, and club information. Ensures unique rows only.

Usage

get_racers(file_path)

Arguments

file_path: Path to the HTML file containing event results

Value

A data frame containing:

name: Racer name (Lastname Firstname format)
href: Racer URL (href to their profile page)
club: Racer club (if available)
club_href: Club hyperlink (if available)

Examples

if (FALSE) { # \dontrun{
# Extract all racers from an event
file_path <- system.file("extdata", "chatham_oct2023.html", package = "skiresultsR")
racers <- get_racers(file_path)

head(racers)
nrow(racers)  # Number of unique racers
} # }