util_map_player_ids: Retrieve a player ids from their names

In nhlapi: A Minimum-Dependency 'R' Interface to the 'NHL' API

Description

Retrieve a player ids from their names

Usage

util_map_player_ids(playerNames, map = getOption("nhlapi_player_map"))

Arguments

playerNames	character(), vector of one or more player names. Not case sensitive for convenience.
map	data.frame, with 2 columns: nameMd5: character() of hashed player names id: integer() of player ids used by the NHL API

Value

integer(), named vector of player ids, 'NA_integer“ for those names where id was not found. In case a player name has multiple ids, all of them are returned.

Examples

  nhlapi:::util_map_player_ids(
    c("Joe SAKIC", "peter Forsberg", "test")
  )

nhlapi documentation built on Feb. 20, 2021, 9:06 a.m.