nbaStatsGrabber: getPlayers

In daz13/nbaAnalytics: Provides visualizations and analyses based on data from NBA.com

Description

Grab the complete players data table from stats.nba.com and returns as it a data frame

Usage

  nbaStatsGrabber(url = "http://stats.nba.com/stats/commonallplayers?IsOnlyCurrentSeason=0&LeagueID=00&Season=2016-17",
  index = 1)

Arguments

url	url from stats.nba.com which returns a standard formatted JSON object (cf. details for more info about the expected JSON structure)
dim	if the JSON object returns more than one data tables this argument can be used to specify which data shall be returned

Details

The typical JSON return objext from stats.nba.com is a list of three objects: 1. resource: Charater identifier (could be coupled to a base url string) 2. parameters: List; The parameters submitted in the JSON query to generate the data (in combinationo with the base URL stirng should reproduce update the data table) 3. resultsSet: The actual results, data lies in rowSet (df or vector there might be more than one rowset), column headers in headers, the id of the row set can be found under names The function extracts the rowSet and renames the columns of the rowSet to the corresponding headers (all other information in the JSON object are currently ommitted, although this might change in the future). By default always the first row set is extracted, behaviour can be changed by the index argument.

daz13/nbaAnalytics documentation built on May 20, 2019, 2:40 p.m.