Fuzzy lookup within people table
Arguments
- x
[character]A character string to be searched within the names in the people table
Value
The people table subset to rows that fuzzy match x
Examples
people_search("Frank Thomas")
#> # A tibble: 8 × 5
#> name birth_year key_mlbam key_bbref key_fangraphs
#> <chr> <int> <int> <chr> <int>
#> 1 Frank Thompson 1854 123281 "thompfr01" 1013006
#> 2 Frank Thompson 1895 123282 "thompfr02" 1013007
#> 3 Frank Thompson 1973 440254 "" NA
#> 4 Hank Thomas 2002 808810 "" NA
#> 5 Frank Tokash 1950 565267 "" NA
#> 6 Frank Thomas 1968 123245 "thomafr04" 255
#> 7 Frank Thomas 1965 565093 "" NA
#> 8 Frank Thomas 1929 123246 "thomafr03" 1012976
people_search("ichiro")
#> # A tibble: 39 × 5
#> name birth_year key_mlbam key_bbref key_fangraphs
#> <chr> <int> <int> <chr> <int>
#> 1 Shinichi Ohnuki 1994 692702 "" NA
#> 2 Rich Rowland 1964 121512 "rowlari01" 1011262
#> 3 Toshihiro Noguchi 1971 538182 "" NA
#> 4 Yasushi Hirose 1974 530463 "" NA
#> 5 Akihiro Hakumura 1991 685544 "" NA
#> 6 Toshihiro Iwao 1987 649127 "" NA
#> 7 Akihiro Maeda 1983 547669 "" NA
#> 8 Brett Wichrowski 2002 814489 "" NA
#> 9 Yoshihiro Tamura 1994 684104 "" NA
#> 10 Soichiro Yamazaki 1998 810077 "" NA
#> # ℹ 29 more rows