A package that allows the user to extract data on NHL teams without using the browser. The RStudio interface is simple and intuitive to use.
Install gameday
from GitHub:
devtools::install_github("dchiu911/gameday")
Note that you need the devtools
package to do this.
At the current version, gameday
has two functions: gday()
and scores()
. We'll discuss each in turn.
Given a team and a date, we can call gday(team, date)
to see whether that team plays on that date.
library(gameday)
gday("devils", "2014-11-03")
## [1] FALSE
What if we wanted to find all the final scores on a particular date? Then we can call scores(date)
to return a data.frame
with this information.
scores("2014-11-15")
## home away home_score away_score
## 1 BOSTON BRUINS CAROLINA HURRICANES 2 1
## 2 DALLAS STARS MINNESOTA WILD 1 2
## 3 LOS ANGELES KINGS ANAHEIM DUCKS 3 2
## 4 BUFFALO SABRES TORONTO MAPLE LEAFS 6 2
## 5 MONTREAL CANADIENS PHILADELPHIA FLYERS 6 3
## 6 TAMPA BAY LIGHTNING NY ISLANDERS ISLANDERS 5 2
## 7 NEW JERSEY DEVILS COLORADO AVALANCHE 2 3
## 8 PITTSBURGH PENGUINS NY RANGERS RANGERS 3 2
## 9 COLUMBUS BLUE JACKETS SAN JOSE SHARKS 2 1
## 10 NASHVILLE PREDATORS WINNIPEG JETS 2 1
## 11 ST LOUIS BLUES WASHINGTON CAPITALS 4 1
## 12 CALGARY FLAMES OTTAWA SENATORS 4 2
Further details can be found in the vignette for this package. To view it, run this command in the R console:
browseVignettes("gameday")
Once there, you can click on the HTML
link to get a nice introduction to gameday
. The help files can be accessed with ?gday
and ?scores
for details on function arguments and some examples.
Alternatively, there is a markdown version available in this repository, found here.