getData: getData

In frogman141/openWAR: Machinery for analyzing baseball data and computing WAR

Description

Retrieves MLBAM GameDay files for a specified time interval using multiple calls of the gameday function.

Usage

getData(start = Sys.Date() - 1, end = NULL, gameIds = NULL,
  drop.suspended = TRUE)

Arguments

start	A valid date in yyyy-mm-dd format (default yesterday)
end	A valid date in yyyy-mm-dd format (default start)
drop.suspended	Logical indicating whether games with fewer than 5 innings should be excluded

Details

Given a beginning and end date, this function will retrieve all data from the MLABM GameDay server in the specified interval and process them into a single data.frame.

Value

A data.frame of class 'GameDayPlays' consisting of play-by-play data

Examples

# Get data from one day
ds = getData(start = '2013-03-31')
# Get data from multiple days
ds = getData(start = '2013-03-31', end = '2013-04-02')
# Get data for entire 2013 season
# ds = getData(start = '2013-03-31', end = '2013-09-30')

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