cricketr (version 0.0.23)

getPlayerDataSp: Get the player data along with venue and

Description

This function is a specialized version of getPlayer Data. This function gets the players data along with details on matches' venue (home/abroad) and the result of match(won,lost,drawn) as 2 separate columns (ha & result). The column ha has 1:home and 2: overseas. The column result has values 1:won , 2;lost and :drawn match

Usage

getPlayerDataSp(profileNo, tdir = "./data", tfile = "player001.csv", 
ttype = "batting")

Arguments

profileNo

This is the profile number of the player to get data. This can be obtained from http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/content/player/index.html. Type the name of the player and click search. This will display the details of the player. Make a note of the profile ID. For e.g For Sachin Tendulkar this turns out to be http://www.espncricinfo.com/india/content/player/35320.html. Hence the profile for Sachin is 35320

tdir

Name of the directory to store the player data into. If not specified the data is stored in a default directory "./data". Default="./tdata"

tfile

Name of the file to store the data into for e.g. tendulkar.csv. This can be used for subsequent functions. Default="player001.csv"

ttype

type of data required. This can be "batting" or "bowling"

Value

Returns the player's dataframe along with the homeAway and the result columns

Details

More details can be found in my short video tutorial in Youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q9uMPFVsXsI

References

http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/content/stats/index.html https://gigadom.wordpress.com/

See Also

getPlayerData

Examples

# NOT RUN {
# Only away. Get data only for won and lost innings
tendulkar <-getPlayerDataSp(35320,tdir="../cricketr/data", tfile="tendulkarsp.csv",ttype="batting")

# Get bowling data and store in file for future
kumble <- getPlayerDataSp(30176,tdir="../cricketr/data",tfile="kumblesp.csv",ttype="bowling")
# }