do_scraping_games: Player game finder data

Description

This function calls the needed ancillary functions to scrape the player game finder data for the desired competition (currently, ACB, Euroleague and Eurocup).

Usage

do_scraping_games(competition, type_league, nums, year, verbose, accents, r_user)

Value

A data frame with the player game finder data for the competition selected.

Arguments

competition: String. Options are "ACB", "Euroleague" and "Eurocup".
type_league: String. If competition is ACB, to scrape ACB league games ("ACB"), Copa del Rey games ("CREY") or Supercopa games ("SCOPA").
nums: Numbers corresponding to the website from which scraping.
year: If competition is either Euroleague or Eurocup, the year when the season starts is needed. 2017 refers to 2017-2018 and so on.
verbose: Should R report information on progress? Default TRUE.
accents: If competition is ACB, should we keep the Spanish accents? The recommended option is to remove them, so default FALSE.
r_user: Email to identify the user when doing web scraping. This is a polite way to do web scraping and to certify that the user is working as transparently as possible with a research purpose.

Author

Guillermo Vinue

Examples

Run this code

if (FALSE) {
# Not needed to scrape every time the package is checked, built and installed.
df1 <- do_scraping_games(competition = "ACB", type_league = "ACB", nums = 62001,
                         year = "2017-2018", verbose = TRUE, accents = FALSE, 
                         r_user = "guillermo.vinue@uv.es")
                         
df1_eur <- do_scraping_games(competition = "Euroleague", nums = 1,
                         year = "2017", verbose = TRUE,
                         r_user = "guillermo.vinue@uv.es")                          
}