fitzRoy (version 0.3.2)

get_afltables_stats: Return afltables match stats

Description

get_afltables_stats returns a data frame containing match stats for each game within the specified date range

Usage

get_afltables_stats(start_date = "1897-01-01", end_date = Sys.Date())

Arguments

start_date

character string for start date return to URLs from, in "dmy" or "ymd" format

end_date

optional, character string for end date to return URLS, in "dmy" or "ymd" format

Value

a data table containing player stats for each game between start date and end date

Details

This function returns a data frame containing match stats for each game within the specified date range. The data from contains all stats on afltables match pages and returns 1 row per player.

The data for this function is hosted on github to avoid extensive scraping of historical data from afltables.com. This will be updated regularly.

Examples

# NOT RUN {
#
# }
# NOT RUN {
# Gets all data
get_afltables_stats()
# Specify a date range
get_afltables_stats("01/01/2018", end_date = "01/04/2018")
# }