R: Lookup Information for Players and Teams

playerInfo {Lahman} | R Documentation

## Lookup Information for Players and Teams

### Description

These functions use `grep` to lookup information about players (from the `Master` file) and teams (from the `Teams` file).

### Usage

    playerInfo(playerID, nameFirst, nameLast, data = Lahman::Master, extra = NULL, ...)

    teamInfo(teamID, name, data = Lahman::Teams, extra = NULL, ...)

### Arguments

`playerID` | pattern for `playerID`
`nameFirst` | pattern for first name
`nameLast` | pattern for last name
`data` | The name of the dataset to search
`extra` | A character vector of other fields to include in the result
`...` | other arguments passed to `grep`
`teamID` | pattern for `teamID`
`name` | pattern for team name

### Value

Returns a data frame for unique matching rows from `data`

### Author(s)

Michael Friendly

### See Also

`grep`, ~~~

### Examples

    	playerInfo("aaron")

      teamInfo("CH", extra="park")

[Package Lahman version 5.0-0 Index]