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Load cleaned NBA team rosters from the data repo

Source: R/load_nba.R
load_nba_rosters.Rd

helper that loads multiple seasons of ESPN NBA team rosters (one row per athlete) from the sportsdataverse-data release repo, either into memory or into a database via forwarded arguments in the dots. NOTE: ESPN's roster endpoint returns the current roster, so season files are snapshots as-of-scrape rather than true historical rosters.

Usage

load_nba_rosters(
  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 rosters data table within the database.

Value

Returns a tibble of NBA team rosters.