listRaceDetails: Returns status details for horse and greyhound races

In phillc73/abettor: R bindings to Betfair API-NG

Returns status details for horse and greyhound races

Description

listRaceDetailsreturns status details for horse and greyhound races

Usage

listRaceDetails(
  meetingIds = NULL,
  raceIds = NULL,
  suppress = FALSE,
  sslVerify = TRUE
)

Arguments

meetingIds	String. The unique Id for the meeting equivalent to the eventId for that specific race as returned by listEvents. Optionally restricts the results to the specified meeting IDs. A single meeting ID or list of meeting IDs may be specified. See examples. Optional. Default is NULL
raceIds	String. The unique Id for the race in the format meetingid.raceTime (hhmm). Optionally restricts the results to the specified race IDs. A single race ID or list of race IDs may be specified. See examples. Optional. Default is NULL
suppress	Boolean. By default, this parameter is set to FALSE, meaning that a warning is posted when the listRaceDetails call throws an error. Changing this parameter to TRUE will suppress this warning.
sslVerify	Boolean. This argument defaults to TRUE and is optional. In some cases, where users have a self signed SSL Certificate, for example they may be behind a proxy server, Betfair will fail login with "SSL certificate problem: self signed certificate in certificate chain". If this error occurs you may set sslVerify to FALSE. This does open a small security risk of a man-in-the-middle intercepting your login credentials.

Details

listRaceDetails returns status details for horse and greyhound races in the UK, Ireland and South Africa, based upon meeting and race filters. Unlike some other Betfair API calls, there are no dangers associated with this function, it simply returns status details.

Value

Response from Betfair is parsed from JSON into a data frame of 6 columns.

Note on raceDetailOps variable

The raceDetailOps variable is used to firstly build an R data frame containing all the data to be passed to Betfair, in order for the function to execute successfully. The data frame is then converted to JSON and included in the HTTP POST request. If the listRaceDetails call throws an error, a data frame containing error information is returned.

See Also

https://docs.developer.betfair.com/display/1smk3cen4v3lu3yomq5qye0ni/Race+Status+API this page lists error messages and status enums associated with this Betfair API call

loginBF, which must be executed first, as this function requires a valid session token

Examples

## Not run: 
listRaceDetails() # without any arguments will return results from all available
# meetingIds.

## End(Not run)
## Not run: 
istRaceDetails(meetingIds = "30279213", raceIds = c("30280942.1328", "30280942.1313"))
# returns results from one meetingId and two races from a different meeting.

## End(Not run)

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