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Load cleaned NBA player season stats from the data repo

Source: R/load_nba.R
load_nba_player_stats.Rd

helper that loads multiple seasons of ESPN NBA per-player season stats (averages / totals / miscellaneous categories, long format) from the sportsdataverse-data release repo, either into memory or into a database via forwarded arguments in the dots.

Usage

load_nba_player_stats(
  seasons = most_recent_nba_season(),
  ...,
  dbConnection = NULL,
  tablename = NULL
)

Arguments

seasons

A vector of 4-digit years associated with given NBA seasons. (Min: 2002)

...

Additional arguments passed to an underlying function that writes the season data into a database (used by update_nba_db()).

dbConnection

A DBIConnection object, as returned by DBI::dbConnect().

tablename

The name of the player season stats data table within the database.

Value

Returns a tibble of NBA player season stats (long format).