playerInfo: Lookup Information for Players and Teams

In Lahman: Sean Lahman's Baseball Database

Description

These functions use grep to lookup information about players (from the Master file) and teams (from the Teams file).

Usage

playerInfo(playerID, nameFirst, nameLast, data = Lahman::Master, extra = NULL, ...)

teamInfo(teamID, name, data = Lahman::Teams, extra = NULL, ...)

Arguments

playerID	pattern for playerID
nameFirst	pattern for first name
nameLast	pattern for last name
data	The name of the dataset to search
extra	A character vector of other fields to include in the result
...	other arguments passed to grep
teamID	pattern for teamID
name	pattern for team name

Value

Returns a data frame for unique matching rows from data

Author(s)

Michael Friendly

See Also

grep, ~~~

Examples

	playerInfo("aaron")

  teamInfo("CH", extra="park")

Example output

   playerID nameFirst nameLast
2 aaronha01      Hank    Aaron
3 aaronto01    Tommie    Aaron
    teamID                              name                    park
2      CH1           Chicago White Stockings Union Base-Ball Grounds
33     CH2           Chicago White Stockings     23rd Street Grounds
52     CHN           Chicago White Stockings     23rd Street Grounds
133    CHU Chicago/Pittsburgh (Union League)                    <NA>
246    CHP                   Chicago Pirates                    <NA>
388    CHA                 Chicago White Sox      South Side Park II
599    CHF                  Chicago Chi-Feds           Wrigley Field

Lahman documentation built on May 2, 2019, 5:25 p.m.