Package 'gsisdecoder'

Title: High Efficient Functions to Decode NFL Player IDs
Description: A set of high efficient functions to decode identifiers of National Football League players.
Authors: Sebastian Carl [aut, cre]
Maintainer: Sebastian Carl <[email protected]>
License: MIT + file LICENSE
Version: 0.0.1.9000
Built: 2024-12-06 04:25:33 UTC
Source: https://github.com/nflverse/gsisdecoder

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Decode NFL GSIS player IDs

Description

This function is a wrapper around the high efficient c++ function for fast decoding of NFL GSIS player ids intended to be used within the R package nflfastR.

Usage

decode_ids(player_ids)

Arguments

player_ids

A character vector of encoded (or decoded) GSIS player IDs in NFL play-by-play data sets loaded with fast_scraper or nflfastR::build_nflfastR_pbp.

Value

Decoded GSIS player IDs

Examples

# Decode IDs including already decoded ids and NA

decode_ids(c(
  "32013030-2d30-3033-3338-3733fa30c4fa",
  NA_character_,
  "00-0033873",
  NA_character_,
  "32013030-2d30-3032-3739-3434d4d3846d"
))