Package: retrosheet Type: Package Title: Import Professional Baseball Data from 'Retrosheet' Version: 1.1.7.9000 Authors@R: c(person(given = "Colin", family = "Douglas", role = c("aut", "cre", "cph"), email = "retrosheet@colindougl.as", comment = c(ORCID = "https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6639-006X")), person(given = "Richard", family = "Scriven", role = c("aut", "cph"), email = "rmscriven@gmail.com")) Date: 2026-04-18 Encoding: UTF-8 Maintainer: Colin Douglas Description: A collection of tools to import and structure the (currently) single-season event, game-log, roster, and schedule data available from . In particular, the event (a.k.a. play-by-play) files can be especially difficult to parse. This package does the parsing on those files, returning the requested data in the most practical R structure to use for sabermetric or other analyses. URL: https://github.com/colindouglas/retrosheet Depends: R (>= 2.10) License: GPL (>= 2) Imports: xml2 (>= 1.2.2), stringi (>= 0.4-1), httr (>= 1.4.1), stringr (>= 1.4.0), rvest (>= 0.3.5) Note: NOTICE regarding the transfer of data from Retrosheet: The information used here was obtained free of charge from and is copyrighted by Retrosheet. Interested parties may contact Retrosheet at "www.retrosheet.org". RoxygenNote: 7.3.3 Suggests: testthat (>= 3.0.0), rmarkdown (>= 2.0.0) BugReports: https://github.com/colindouglas/retrosheet/issues Config/pak/sysreqs: libicu-dev libxml2-dev libssl-dev Repository: https://colindouglas.r-universe.dev Date/Publication: 2026-04-20 13:29:40 UTC RemoteUrl: https://github.com/colindouglas/retrosheet RemoteRef: HEAD RemoteSha: 14a652618a9e8244fa19f28414dfc49060d266ad NeedsCompilation: no Packaged: 2026-09-30 07:31:55 UTC; root Author: Colin Douglas [aut, cre, cph] (ORCID: ), Richard Scriven [aut, cph]