R/GenerateURI.R

In kuhnrl30/Touchdown: Tools interacting the Yahoo Fantasy Football API

#' This function generates the URI needed to pull the data
#'
#' @param category One of 7 categories corresponding to the
#' types of data available.  Must be one of the following:
#' \itemize{
#' \item Passing
#' \item Rushing
#' \item Receiving
#' \item Kicking
#' \item Returns
#' \item Punting
#' \item Defense
#' }
#' 
#' @param year Four digit year starting in 2000

#' @param week Vector of Weeks of the season starting 
#' with 1 and ending with 17. 
#'  
#' @return A string with the URI needed to query the Yahoo
#'  sports statistics

GenerateURI<- function(category, year, week){

  base<- "http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/stats/bycategory?"
  paste(base,
        paste("cat",category,sep="="),
        "conference=NFL",
        paste("year=season_",year,sep=""),
        paste("timeframe=Week",week,sep=""),
        sep="&")
}