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Lookup Information for Players and Teams

playerInfo.Rd

These functions use grep to lookup information about players (from the People file) and teams (from the Teams file).

Usage

playerInfo(playerID, nameFirst, nameLast, data = Lahman::People, extra = NULL, ...)

teamInfo(teamID, name, data = Lahman::Teams, extra = NULL, ...)

Arguments

playerID

pattern for playerID

nameFirst

pattern for first name

nameLast

pattern for last name

data

The name of the dataset to search

extra

A character vector of other fields to include in the result

...

other arguments passed to grep

teamID

pattern for teamID

name

pattern for team name

Value

Returns a data frame for unique matching rows from data

Author

Michael Friendly

See also

grep, ~~~

Examples

  playerInfo("aaron")
#>    playerID nameFirst nameLast
#> 2 aaronha01      Hank    Aaron
#> 3 aaronto01    Tommie    Aaron

  teamInfo("CH", extra="park")
#>      teamID                              name                            park
#> 2       CH1           Chicago White Stockings         Union Base-Ball Grounds
#> 33      CH2           Chicago White Stockings             23rd Street Grounds
#> 52      CHN           Chicago White Stockings             23rd Street Grounds
#> 133     CHU Chicago/Pittsburgh (Union League) South Side Park/Exposition Park
#> 246     CHP                   Chicago Pirates              South Side Park II
#> 402     CHA                 Chicago White Sox              South Side Park II
#> 683     CHF                  Chicago Chi-Feds                   Wrigley Field
#> 1054    CHT                 Cleveland Hornets                    Hooper Field