get_heroes {RDota2}

Dota Heroes

Description

A data.frame of Dota2 Heroes.

Usage

get_heroes(dota_id = 570, language = "en", key = NULL)

Arguments

dota_id

Can take one of three values.

• 570 - Dota 2 (default)

• 816 - Dota 2 Internal Test

• 205790 - Dota 2 Beta Test

language

The ISO639-1 language code for returning all the information in the corresponding language. If the language is not supported, english will be returned. For a complete list of the ISO639-1 language codes please visit https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ISO_639-1_codes.

key

The api key obtained from Steam. If you don't have one please visit https://steamcommunity.com/dev in order to do so. For instructions on the correct way to use this key please visit https://github.com/LyzandeR/RDota2 and check the readme file. You can also see the examples. A key can be made available to all the functions by using key_actions. The key argument in individual functions should only be used in case the user needs to work with multiple keys.

Details

A list will be returned that contains three elements. The content, the url and the response received from the api.

The content element of the list contains a data.frame with all the heroes. Each row of the data.frame is a hero and the following columns are included:

• name: Hero's name.

• id: Hero's ID.

• localized_name: Name of the hero in-game.

Value

A dota_api object containing the elements described in the details.

Steam API Documentation

https://wiki.teamfortress.com/wiki/WebAPI/GetHeroes

Examples

## Not run: 
get_heroes()
get_heroes(language = 'en', key = NULL)
get_heroes(language = 'en', key = 'xxxxxxxxxxx')

## End(Not run)