baseballr 1.6.0

Primarily focused on parameter changes to the fg_*() functions to allow for more flexible data retrieval. See below for details.

The parameters are now as follows for the leaderboard functions:

• age (integer) Age of players
• pos (character) Position of players, defaults to "all". To exclude pitchers, use "np".
• stats (character) Statistic to return. Defaults to "bat".
• lg (character) League to return. Defaults to "all". Options are "al", "nl", or "all".
• qual (character) Whether you want only batters/pitchers that qualified in a given - season, or the minimum number of plate appearances for inclusion. If you only want - qualified hitters, use qual. If a minimum number of plate appearaces/innings - pitched, use the number desired. Defaults to "y".
• startseason (character) Season for which you want to scrape the data.
• endseason (character) Last season for which you want data.
• startdate (character) Start date for which you want data.
• enddate (character) End date for which you want data.
• month (character) Month for which you want data.
• hand (character) Handedness of batter. Options are "L", "R", or "B". Empty string - returns all.
• team (character) Teams for which you want data, comma separated.
• pageitems (character) Number of items per page.
• pagenum (character) Page number.
• ind (character) Whether or not to break the seasons out individual, or roll them up together. 1 = split seasons, 0 = aggregate seasons.
• rost (character) Whether or not to include players on the roster. 1 = include, 0 = - exclude.
• players (character) Whether or not to include players on the roster. 1 = include only active roster players, 0 = exclude.
• type (character) Defaults to 8, which is the standard leaderboard. The values for - the leaderboards appear to go to from type = 0 to 48+, which correspond to links - on the leaderboard page.
• postseason (logical) Whether or not to include postseason data. TRUE = include postseason, FALSE = exclude postseason.
• sortdir (character) Sort direction. Options are "asc" or "desc" or "default".
• sortstat (character) Sort by stat. Default is "WAR".

This change affects the following functions:

• fg_team_batter()
• fg_team_pitcher()
• fg_team_fielder() (new function)
• fg_batter_leaders()
• fg_pitcher_leaders()
• fg_fielder_leaders() (new function)