Description
Import Professional Baseball Data from 'Retrosheet'.
Description
A collection of tools to import and structure the (currently) single-season event, game-log, roster, and schedule data available from <https://www.retrosheet.org>. In particular, the event (a.k.a. play-by-play) files can be especially difficult to parse. This package does the parsing on those files, returning the requested data in the most practical R structure to use for sabermetric or other analyses.
README.md
retrosheet
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retrosheet is an R package that downloads and parses the single-season event, gamelog, roster, and schedule files from retrosheet.org into structured R objects for further analysis.
Note: As of retrosheet 1.1.0, this repo contains the version available on CRAN. Older versions can be found here.
Installation
retrosheet can be installed from CRAN, or development versions installed from Github.
# Install from CRAN
install.packages("retrosheet")
# Install development version from Github
# install.packages("devtools")
devtools::install_github("colindouglas/retrosheet")
Usage
getRetrosheet()- This workhorse function returns the full seasonal data associated with the user-entered arguments- Use the
cacheargument to save a local cache and avoid stressing retrosheet.org - Use
get_retrosheet()as a drop-in replacement to return tibbles instead of matrices
- Use the
getPartialGamelog()- An alternative to returning the full gamelog files. This function allows the user to choose the columns and date. Column names are made available by the global objectgamelogFields
Also included are convenience functions
getFileNames()- for obtaining a list of all zip files currently available for use by this packagegetTeamIDs()- for providing the team ID value to be used in theteamargument ofgetRetrosheet()getParkIDs()- for ballpark ID and name information.