NEWS

BAwiR 1.3.2 (2024-01-09)

The new function do_process_acb_pbp() has been added to automatize the data collection.
Submitted to CRAN.

The use of the ggthemes package has been removed in order to fill with the CRAN willingness.
Submitted to CRAN.

This is an extended version of the package with a bunch of new functions developed to analyze the play-by-play data from the Spanish ACB league.
It accompanies the platform available at https://www.uv.es/vivigui/basketball_platform.html
The scraping function for the ACB box score data has been also updated.
Submitted to CRAN.

scale_x_percent() and scale_color_ipsum() from the hrbrthemes package have been removed in get_shooting_plot() to avoid strong reverse dependencies with other packages.
Some links have been fixed, as required by the CRAN maintainers.
Submitted to CRAN.

The markdown and rmarkdown packages have been added in the 'Suggests' field of DESCRIPTION, as required by the CRAN maintainers.
Some links have been fixed, as required by the CRAN maintainers.
Submitted to CRAN.

In get_bubble_plot(), get_four_factors_plot(), get_heatmap_bb(), get_similar_teams() and get_similar_players(): order() on data frames is no longer called, as required by the CRAN maintainers.
Some links have been fixed, as required by the CRAN maintainers.
Submitted to CRAN.

In do_four_factors_df(), the df6 and df7 matrices are converted to data frames with as.data.frame(), as required by the upgrade of package 'dplyr' to version 1.0.0.
Submitted to CRAN.

In the examples of get_similar_players(), supressWarnings() has been used instead of calling options().
An error related to anthrCases() from the package 'Anthropometry' has been corrected. This was due to the upgrade of package 'tibble' to version 3.0.0. See version of 1.14 of 'Anthropometry'.
as_data_frame() has been replaced by as_tibble(), as required by the upgrade of package 'tibble' to version 3.0.0.
Submitted to CRAN.

This a minor update to avoid some negligible warnings highlighted by the new version of dplyr.
Submitted to CRAN.

The paper presenting this package has been published, so its doi link has been added to the DESCRIPTION file.
Submitted to CRAN.

get_barplot_monthly_stats() and get_stats_seasons() allow now to represent multiple players at the same time.
get_four_factors_plot() allows now to represent multiple teams at the same time.
get_heatmap_bb() allows to represent different aspects of the game (offensive stats, defensive stats, etc) separately or all together.
get_pop_pyramid_acb() is now get_pop_pyramid().
Submitted to CRAN.

In scraping_games_acb(), the seasons where there are no Plus/Minus have been updated. Thus, it is not needed to update the package every time there is a new ACB season.
Submitted to CRAN.

An html vignette has been added.
In get_stats_seasons()$df_gg, the column Age indicates the age of player at February 1st of the season.
Submitted to CRAN.

The scraping numbers for the playoff games for the ACB 2017-2018 season have been added to scraping_games_acb().
Submitted to CRAN.

A minor typo has been corrected in scraping_rosters_acb() and scraping_rosters_euro() to check if the data frame is NULL before adding name columns.
In the same two functions, the colon notation in the initial loop has been replaced by seq_len to avoid the backwards sequence bug.
A minor typo has been corrected in do_four_factors_df() to identify the games that every team played.
get_pop_pyramid_acb() has been corrected to be in line with ggplot2 updates.
get_map_nats() is not interactive anymore in order to harmonize with all other functions. This feature is just in the web application.
These new functions have been added: - do_stats_teams() Total and average statistics for every team. - get_similar_teams() Similar teams to archetypoids. - get_stats_seasons() Season-by-season average players' stats. - get_table_results() Cross table of league results.
Submitted to CRAN.