Undocumented functions?... ">?betfair " gives nothing

Question

There are loads of undocumented functions, in fact the manual only really covers login and getting prices. Most other R packages have  pretty comprehensive documentation (ie via >?betfair )

We are all very grateful for your work putting this together, but do you have any plans to write something more useful?

Answer 1

that said

ls.str("package:betfair")

is vaguely useful, but some lovely documentation would be better :o)

Answer 2

>in fact the manual only really covers login and getting prices

Mmm.  Not sure you've got to the end of the manual yet, since all the basic operations you need are documented (login, finding and getting markets, getting market prices, placing bets, updating, canceliing bets), along with detailed examples of use (in fact there is more explanation than you usually have in an R package).  

But it's true that we haven't documented all individual functions at the package level.  You should find most that don't have examples in the manual are fairly obvious once you've started using the package, alongside basic R functions like args("functionname").  We may add more doc when there is time, but for now there's the manual - and don't forget users can contribute, also, since this is open source code.

Comments

Fair point on contributing, I'm still finding my way with R (thanks for the tip with arg("fn_name") and will very happily contribute some of the products of my current experiements (my apologies on the manual, just realised I had a corrupted version that cut off after section 5.) Agreed that your descriptive examples are much better than most R-docmtation, it's just when something doesn't work (like getInPlayMarkets I usually doubt my implementation (and so want to see the documentation) before I doubt the coding of a package.

Again, thanks for the package and taking the time to reply