2,892 comparisons among 10 agents.
| Description | Men's international rugby union test matches between the ten tier-one nations (Argentina, Australia, England, France, Ireland, Italy, New Zealand, Scotland, South Africa, Wales), 1871-2026, parsed from the 45 Wikipedia head-to-head pages. One row per test with scores, venue and competition; agent_a = home side, homefield blank at neutral venues. |
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| Reference | Wikipedia contributors. History of rugby union matches between [nation] and [nation], 45 pages. English Wikipedia (revisions current on 2026-10-01). |
| Licence | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
| Source data | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:History_of_Tier_1_nations |
These notes describe the source data, which the IRW reproduces as released. All notes are listed on the Data Notes page.
| Comparisons | 2,892 |
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| Agents | 10 |
agent_aagent_bcompetitiondatehomefieldhost_countryscore_ascore_bscore_rawsource_pagevenuewinner
Or load it directly in R or Python (both need a free Redivis account; the first call opens a browser to sign in):
# R
install.packages("remotes")
remotes::install_github("itemresponsewarehouse/Rpkg")
library(irw)
df <- irw_fetch("rugby_union_tier1_1871_2026", source = "comp")
# Python
pip install irw
import irw
df = irw.fetch("rugby_union_tier1_1871_2026", source="comp")
@misc{Wikipedia_rugby_history,
author = {{Wikipedia contributors}},
title = {History of rugby union matches between nations},
howpublished = {\url{https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:History_of_Tier_1_nations}},
note = {English Wikipedia (revisions current on 2026-10-01)},
pages = {45}
}
| IRW version | v622 |
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| Redivis dataset | irw_competitions v6.3 |
| Redivis dataset DOI | 10.57761/7qpg-cj26 |
| Manifest pin for this IRW version | v6.3 |
| Metadata source | irw_meta v49.0 |