Lahman (version 4.0-1)

battingLabels: Variable Labels

Description

These data frames provide descriptive labels for the variables in the Batting, Pitching and Fielding files (and related *Post files). They are useful for plots and other output using Label.

Usage

data(battingLabels)
data(fieldingLabels)
data(pitchingLabels)

Format

Each is data frame with observations on the following 2 variables.

variable

variable name

label

variable label

See Also

Label

Examples

data(battingLabels)
str(battingLabels)

require(plyr)
# find and plot maximum number of homers per year
batHR <- ddply(subset(Batting, !is.na(HR)), .(yearID),
		summarise, max=max(HR))
		
with(batHR, {
  plot(yearID, max, 
       xlab=Label("yearID"), ylab=paste("Maximum", Label("HR")), 
       cex=0.8)
  lines(lowess(yearID, max), col="blue", lwd=2)
  abline(lm(max ~ yearID), col="red", lwd=2)
	})