events: events method

In durtal/betfaiR: R Client for Betfair's API

Description

events associated with markets

Arguments

filter

list to select desired markets, see marketFilter, or visit developer.betfair.com, for the different options.

Value

a dataframe of events (ie. Manchester United vs Arsenal) associated with markets selected by the filter parameter, with the following variables:

• event_id event id

• event_name event name

• event_countryCode ISO-2 country code for the event

• event_timezone the timezone in which the event is taking place

• event_venue the event venue (if applicable)

• event_openDate the scheduled start Date of rhe event

• marketCount number of markets associated with this competition

Examples

## Not run: 

# login
bf <- betfair(usr = "username", pwd = "password", key = "API_key")

# return all events, probably best to store as dataframe, likely exceed 1000 rows
events_df <- bf$events()

# return football events
# using eventType id learned by using bf$eventTypes()
football <- bf$events(filter = marketFilter(eventTypeIds = 1))

## End(Not run)

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