util_prepare_player_ids: Prepare player ids based on player names

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

Description

Prepare player ids based on player names

Usage

util_prepare_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 found valid player ids, those not found omitted.

Examples

  nhlapi:::util_prepare_player_ids(c("joe sakic", "fake player"))

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