Ranking soccer players

Given a soccer dataset, as well as column names, the function will rank the players by their names based on the column selected by the user.

Usage

rankingplayers(df, col_names)

Arguments

df

Dataframe containing players information

col_names

A column name in the dataframe to be used to rank the players

Value

Returns a dataframe of names representing the ranking of the players based on the specified columns

Examples

library(tidyverse)
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library(dplyr)
 my_data <- data.frame (Name  = c("Flora", "Mary", "Sarah", "Ester", "Sophie", "Maria"),
 second_column = c(1, 4, 3, 5, 1, 6),
 third_column  = c(7, 30, 12, 17, 34,8))