betfairly-package: Access Betfair API from R
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Description Details Output of betfairly functions Betfair exchange servers Curl Options Reporting Bugs Disclaimer Author(s) References See Also

The betfairly package allows to access most of the Betfair API directly from R.

For the list of all implemented functions and the details of the current development status please see todo.

If a particular functionality that you need is missing, please contact the author.

For examples of usage see here.

Table of most common functions:

If you want to:	Use:
Login	`bfLogin`
Request a list of available events	`getActiveEventTypes`
Request a list of Market for a specific eventType	`getAllMarkets`
Request details of a Market (excluding prices)	`getMarket`
Request prices for a Market	`getMarketPricesCompressed`
Place a bet	`placeBets`
Cancel a bet before it is matched	`cancelBets`
Retrieve a list of my Matched/Unmatched bets	`getMUBets`
Edit an Unmatched bet	`updateBets`
Retrieve the P&L for a market	`getMarketProfitAndLoss`
Place a Betfair SP bet	`placeBets`
Check if a market is in-play now	`getMarketPricesCompressed`
Check if a market is due to be turned in-play	`getAllMarkets`
Retrieve a list of Settled bets	`getBetHistory`
Retrieve your P&L for a market	`getMarketProfitAndLoss`

For a description of payed and free access types see http://bdp.betfair.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=36&Itemid=64.

Output of `betfairly` functions

All betfairly API functions can return four types of output, given by the option parameter which can be:

simple (the default): Simplified output represented by a bfSimpleOutput object containing slots bfType (original betfair class), errorCode ("OK" if succeed), and minorErrorCode (usually an empty string). See bfSimpleOutput-class for more information.
xml: raw XML representation
list: recursive list mirroring the structure of the node
S4: S4 object as described by the service SOAP protocol. Note what you will need XMLSchema package for the S4 conversion to work, as it defines some classes which are not provided with betfairly package. See bfInitClasses for further instructions.

You can change the default by setting the bfOutput option:

options(bfOutput = "XML")

Functions to betfair exchange services accept a server parameter, which can be either "GB" (the default) or "AU". You can set a different default with options(bfServer = "AU")

Each betfairly function accepts curlOpts parameter which is passed directly to curlPerform, see the documentation of that function for details.

Before reporting bugs please see the relevant section in the official Betfair documentation and ensure it's not a betfair service issue. Known isssues are documented for each Betfair API action.

The betfairly package is provided with absolutely no warranty. The documentation of the functional API is an adapted and abbreviated version of official Betfair documentation. Please refer to it for the complete reference.

Vitalie Spinu spinuvit@gmail.com

http://code.google.com/p/betfairly/, https://docs.developer.betfair.com/betfair/
Betfair API Quick Start

bfSimpleOutput-class

vspinu/betfairly documentation built on May 3, 2019, 7:08 p.m.