Sample From Named Players' Common Team Mates

Sample From Named Players' Common Team Mates

sample_colleagues(all_players, players, n = NULL)

Arguments

all_players

Data.frame. Data fetched from Transfermarkt with get_players.

players

Character vector. One or more player names for whom to return common team mates from the all_players data.frame. See details.

n

Numeric. Number of team-mates' names to return. See details.

Value

A character vector of player names.

Details

Pass one player name to the players argument to sample from all of their team mates in the dataset. Pass multiple players to sample from common team mates.

The default number of player names returned, n, by will depend on the number of players supplied to the players argument: one input name will result in n = 5; multiple input names will result in n = 1.

Examples

if (FALSE) {
# Fetch player data from Transfermarkt
epl_players <- get_players(1992:2020, "England")

# Return several team mates for one named player
sample_colleagues(epl_players, "James Milner", n = 5)

# Return one team mate in common for named players
sample_colleagues(
  epl_players,
  c("Mark Viduka", "Kevin Phillips", "Nicky Butt"),
  n = 1
)
}