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playerInfo

Lookup Information for Players and Teams

Description

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

Usage

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(s)

Michael Friendly

Examples

playerInfo("aaron")

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

Lahman

Sean 'Lahman' Baseball Database

v10.0-1

GPL

Authors

Michael Friendly [aut], Chris Dalzell [cre, aut], Martin Monkman [aut], Dennis Murphy [aut], Vanessa Foot [ctb], Justeena Zaki-Azat [ctb], Sean Lahman [cph]

Initial release

2022-04-07