pitchRx: Tools for Harnessing 'MLBAM' 'Gameday' Data and Visualizing 'pitchfx'

With 'pitchRx', one can easily obtain Major League Baseball Advanced Media's 'Gameday' data (as well as store it in a remote database). The 'Gameday' website hosts a wealth of data in XML format, but perhaps most interesting is 'pitchfx'. Among other things, 'pitchfx' data can be used to recreate a baseball's flight path from a pitcher's hand to home plate. With pitchRx, one can easily create animations and interactive 3D 'scatterplots' of the baseball's flight path. 'pitchfx' data is also commonly used to generate a static plot of baseball locations at the moment they cross home plate. These plots, sometimes called strike-zone plots, can also refer to a plot of event probabilities over the same region. 'pitchRx' provides an easy and robust way to generate strike-zone plots using the 'ggplot2' package.

Version: 1.8.2
Depends: R (≥ 2.15.1), ggplot2 (≥ 0.9.3)
Imports: XML2R (≥ 0.0.6), plyr, MASS, hexbin, mgcv
Suggests: DBI, dplyr, RSQLite (≥ 1.0.0), parallel, knitr, animation, shiny, testthat, ggsubplot, rgl
Published: 2015-12-09
Author: Carson Sievert
Maintainer: Carson Sievert <cpsievert1 at gmail.com>
BugReports: http://github.com/cpsievert/pitchRx/issues
License: MIT + file LICENSE
URL: http://cpsievert.github.com/pitchRx
NeedsCompilation: no
Citation: pitchRx citation info
Materials: NEWS
In views: SportsAnalytics
CRAN checks: pitchRx results

Documentation:

Reference manual: pitchRx.pdf

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Package source: pitchRx_1.8.2.tar.gz
Windows binaries: r-devel: pitchRx_1.8.2.zip, r-release: pitchRx_1.8.2.zip, r-oldrel: pitchRx_1.8.2.zip
macOS binaries: r-release (arm64): pitchRx_1.8.2.tgz, r-oldrel (arm64): pitchRx_1.8.2.tgz, r-release (x86_64): pitchRx_1.8.2.tgz, r-oldrel (x86_64): pitchRx_1.8.2.tgz
Old sources: pitchRx archive

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