Welcome folks,
I’m Saiem Gilani, one of the authors of baseballr,
and I hope to give the community a high-quality resource for accessing
men’s baseball data for statistical analysis, baseball research, and
more. I am excited to show you some of what you can do with this edition
of the package.
baseballr# You can install using the pacman package using the following code:
if (!requireNamespace('pacman', quietly = TRUE)){
install.packages('pacman')
}
pacman::p_load_current_gh("billpetti/baseballr")There are generally speaking eight men’s baseball data sources accessible from this package:
baseballr-data
repo 
As of baseballr v1.0.0, a function naming convention was implemented to have the data source indicator appear at the start of the function name:
Functions that use the baseballr-data
repository will contain load_ or update_
in the function name and would be considered loading functions for the
play-by-play data, team box scores, and player box scores.
Functions that use the MLB Stats API start with mlb_
by convention and should be assumed as get functions. As of
baseballr version 1.5.0, the package exports ~88 functions
covering the MLB Stats API.
Functions that use one of Baseball Savant’s Statcast
APIs start with statcast_ by convention and should be
assumed as get functions. These functions allow for live
access to Statcast data for the MLB games in-progress. As of
baseballr version 1.5.0, the package exports ~5
Statcast-related functions.
Functions that use Chadwick Bureau’s
Public Register of Baseball Players start with
chadwick_, playerid_, or
playername_ by convention and should be assumed as
get functions. These functions allow for access to the
Bureau’s public register of baseball players. As of
baseballr version 1.5.0, the package exports 3 functions
sourced using the Chadwick Bureau’s public register of baseball
players.
Functions that use Baseball Reference’s website start with
bref_ by convention and should be assumed as
get functions. As of baseballr version 1.5.0,
the package exports ~4 functions covering Baseball
Reference.
Functions that use FanGraphs’s baseball website start with
fg_ by convention and should be assumed as get
functions. As of baseballr version 1.5.0, the package
exports ~11 functions covering FanGraphs.com.
Functions that use Retrosheet’s baseball data start with
retrosheet_ by convention and should be assumed as
get functions. As of baseballr version 1.5.0,
the package exports 1 function for Retrosheet Data.
Functions that use the NCAA website start with ncaa_
by convention and should be assumed as get functions. As of
baseballr version 1.5.0, the package exports ~8 function
covering the NCAA Stats
portal.
