statcast_search_batters returns Error: Can't assign 94 names to a 112-column data.table

[teajay]

Describe the bug
About an hour ago statcast_search_batters started returning "Error: Can't assign 94 names to a 112-column data.table"

To Reproduce
Run this command
statcast_search_batters("2024-03-28", Sys.Date() - 1, 691026)

I don't recall all of the columns in the previous result set, but it looks like some extra columns on the right side of the CSV returned from the direct API call below. Columns starting after swing_length. i.e., from home_score onward
https://baseballsavant.mlb.com/statcast_search/csv?all=true&hfPT=&hfAB=&hfBBT=&hfPR=&hfZ=&stadium=&hfBBL=&hfNewZones=&hfGT=R%7CPO%7CS%7C&hfC&hfSea=2024%7C&hfSit=&hfOuts=&opponent=&pitcher_throws=&batter_stands=&hfSA=&player_type=batter&hfInfield=&team=&position=&hfOutfield=&hfRO=&home_road=&batters_lookup%5B%5D=691026&game_date_gt=2024-03-28&game_date_lt=2024-07-09&hfFlag=&hfPull=&metric_1=&hfInn=&min_pitches=0&min_results=0&group_by=name&sort_col=pitches&player_event_sort=h_launch_speed&sort_order=desc&min_abs=0&type=details

Version:
baseballr v1.6.0

[mlascaleia]

See #337

[teajay]

See #337

I’m familiar with that issue. Upgraded from the CRAN version to 1.6.0 hosted here on GitHub to resolve some time ago. It would appear there was another breaking change, of a similar nature. Are you not able to repro?

[mlascaleia]

I'd be very surprised if it's a different issue. If you read through that thread I mention that, as the package is currently coded, it will break in this way every single time the MLB adds a new column in statcast. So, a new column (or set of columns) must have been added and the package hasn't been updated to address it, thus making it so that updating the package won't fix the issue

[teajay]

Thank you for clarifying, I thought you were referring to the breaking change when MLB added the 2 bat swing fields a while ago. I hadn't seen your most recent comment this morning -- you are in fact talking about the issue of extra columns in general.

Thank you as well for a change to unblock things - I had just finished coding up my first Shiny app and was ready to publish last night just as things broke.