get_payload: Get Gameday data from MLBAM.

In keberwein/mlbgameday: Tools to Gather Data from Major League Baseball Advanced Media

Description

Get Gameday data from MLBAM.

Usage

get_payload(start = NULL, end = NULL, league = "mlb", dataset = NULL,
  game_ids = NULL, db_con = NULL, overwrite = FALSE, ...)

Arguments

start	A start date passed as a character in ISO 8601 format. "2017-05-01"
end	An end date passed as a character in ISO 8601 format. "2017-09-01"
league	The league to gather gids for. The default is "mlb". Other options include "aaa" and "aa"
dataset	The dataset to be scraped. The default is "inning_all." Other options include, "inning_hit", "linescore".
game_ids	A list of user-supplied gameIds.
db_con	A database connection from the DBI package.
overwrite	Logical. Should current database be overwritten? Inherited from the dbWriteTable function from the DBI package. The default value is FALSE.
...	additional arguments

Examples

## Not run: 
# Make a request for a single day.
df <- get_payload(start = "2016-06-01", end = "2016-06-01")


# Run larger requests in parallel.
library(doParallel)
library(foreach)

no_cores <- detectCores() - 2
cl <- makeCluster(no_cores) 
registerDoParallel(cl)

df <- get_payload(start = "2016-01-01", end = "2017-01-01")

stopImplicitCluster()
rm(cl)


## End(Not run)

# Supply your own custom vector of game ids.

mygids <- search_gids(team = "indians", start = "2016-05-01", end = "2016-05-01")

df <- get_payload(game_ids = mygids)

keberwein/mlbgameday documentation built on May 17, 2019, 12:14 p.m.