swim_parse_splash {SwimmeR}

Formats Splash style swimming and diving data read with read_results into a data frame

Description

Takes the output of read_results and cleans it, yielding a data frame of swimming (and diving) results

Usage

swim_parse_splash(
  file_splash,
  avoid_splash = avoid,
  typo_splash = typo,
  replacement_splash = replacement,
  format_results = TRUE,
  splits = FALSE,
  split_length_splash = split_length,
  relay_swimmers_splash = relay_swimmers
)

Arguments

file_splash

output from read_results

avoid_splash

a list of strings. Rows in file_splash containing these strings will not be included. For example "Pool:", often used to label pool records, could be passed to avoid_splash. The default is avoid_default, which contains many strings similar to "Pool:", such as "STATE:" and "Qual:". Users can supply their own lists to avoid_splash. avoid_splash is handled before typo_splash and replacement_splash.

typo_splash

a list of strings that are typos in the original results. swim_parse is particularly sensitive to accidental double spaces, so "Central High School", with two spaces between "Central" and "High" is a problem, which can be fixed. Pass "Central High School" to typo_splash. Unexpected commas as also an issue, for example "Texas, University of" should be fixed using typo_splash and replacement_splash

replacement_splash

a list of fixes for the strings in typo_splash. Here one could pass "Central High School" (one space between "Central" and "High") and "Texas" to replacement_splash fix the issues described in typo_splash

format_results

should the results be formatted for analysis (special strings like "DQ" replaced with NA, Finals as definitive column)? Default is TRUE

splits

either TRUE or the default, FALSE - should swim_parse attempt to include splits.

split_length_splash

either 25 or the default, 50, the length of pool at which splits are recorded. Not all results are internally consistent on this issue - some have races with splits by 50 and other races with splits by 25.

relay_swimmers_splash

should names of relay swimmers be captured? Default is FALSE

Value

returns a data frame with columns Name, Place, Age, Team, Prelims, Finals, Points, Event & DQ. Note all swims will have a Finals, even if that time was actually swam in the prelims (i.e. a swimmer did not qualify for finals). This is so that final results for an event can be generated from just one column.

See Also

swim_parse_splash must be run on the output of read_results