## Lahman package v. 5.0.0 released to CRAN Team Lahman is pleased to announce that v. 5.0.0 of the Lahamn package is now on CRAN. It contains the data from Sean Lahman's Baseball Database, http://www.seanlahman.com/baseball-archive/statistics/ as a collection of data frames covering nearly all aspects of baseball statistics from 1871--2015. In this release, * All data sets have been updated with data for the 2015 baseball season. In addition, numerous corrections of data errors and inconsistencies discovered in previous year tables were applied. * Documentation examples are now provided for all data tables. * Documentation examples were re-writtten to make extensive use of dplyr for data manipulation and ggplot2 for graphics. ### Development All development of the package takes place on Github, https://github.com/cdalzell/Lahman. Major versions of the R package are released only once a year, following the release of a new 20XX archive on Sean Lahman's site. This R release occurs after sufficient time has elapsed to correct errors in the source data for a new season. Minor versions may be released from time to time to correct errors in the R version or add functionality. Please report any problems or issues with this new version as an issue on this site, https://github.com/cdalzell/Lahman/issues. Additional contributions are welcome. There exists an old pseudo-wiki on R-Forge, http://lahman.r-forge.r-project.org/ that collects some additional analyses and visualizations. -- Team Lahman: Chris Dalzell (maintainer), Michael Friendly (author), Denis Murphy, Martin Monkman, Sean Lahman -- Michael Friendly Email: friendly AT yorku DOT ca Professor, Psychology Dept. & Chair, Quantitative Methods York University Voice: 416 736-2100 x66249 Fax: 416 736-5814 4700 Keele Street Web:http://www.datavis.ca Toronto, ONT M3J 1P3 CANADA