betfaiR

Having logged in using the betfair function, the environment contains the eventTypes method. This method can be used to get the number of events that belong to an event type, eg. Football, Horse Racing, etc.

usage

bf$eventTypes(filter = marketFilter())

arguments

param	details
`filter`	select desired markets, see marketFilter for various parameters to filter by, or the relevant help pages on Betfair. If nothing is entered, all competitions are returned

return

The function returns a dataframe of eventTypes, with data about the number of markets.

variable	details
`eventType_id`	the eventType id
`eventType_name`	the eventType name (eg. Football, Horse Racing)
`marketCount`	number of markets associated with this country

examples

library(betfaiR)
# login
bf <- betfair(usr = Sys.getenv("bf_usr"),
              pwd = Sys.getenv("bf_pwd"),
              key = Sys.getenv("bf_key"))

Login successful

# return all countries
tmp <- bf$eventTypes()
head(tmp)

  eventType_id eventType_name marketCount
1            1         Soccer        8074
2            2         Tennis        1565
3            3           Golf          34
4            4        Cricket         180
5            5    Rugby Union          64
6         1477   Rugby League          23

# return all horse racing events
tmp <- bf$eventTypes(filter = marketFilter(marketCountries = "GB"))
head(tmp)

  eventType_id eventType_name marketCount
1            1         Soccer        1672
2            2         Tennis          19
3         7522     Basketball           1
4            3           Golf           6
5            4        Cricket           7
6         7524     Ice Hockey           7

# return all horse racing events whose start date is beyond next week
tmp <- bf$eventTypes(filter = marketFilter(eventTypeIds = 7, from = Sys.Date() + 7))
head(tmp)

  eventType_id eventType_name marketCount
1            7   Horse Racing          86