Lookup Information for Players and Teams

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

playerInfo(playerID, nameFirst, nameLast, data = Lahman::People, 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

Michael Friendly

See also

grep, ~~~

Examples

  playerInfo("aaron")
#>    playerID nameFirst nameLast
#> 2 aaronha01      Hank    Aaron
#> 3 aaronto01    Tommie    Aaron

  teamInfo("CH", extra="park")
#>      teamID                              name                    park
#> 552     CHN           Chicago White Stockings     23rd Street Grounds
#> 701     CHF                  Chicago Chi-Feds           Wrigley Field
#> 703     CHP                   Chicago Pirates                    <NA>
#> 704     CHA                 Chicago White Sox      South Side Park II
#> 1113    CH1           Chicago White Stockings Union Base-Ball Grounds
#> 1114    CH2           Chicago White Stockings     23rd Street Grounds
#> 1154    CHU Chicago/Pittsburgh (Union League)                    <NA>