playerInfo {Lahman}

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

See Also

grep, ~~~

Examples

	playerInfo("aaron")

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