This package is designed to allow users to extract various world football results and player statistics from the following popular football (soccer) data sites:
You can install the CRAN version of
worldfootballR
with:
install.packages("worldfootballR")
You can install the released version of
worldfootballR
from
GitHub with:
# install.packages("devtools")
devtools::install_github("JaseZiv/worldfootballR")
library(worldfootballR)
Package vignettes have been built to help you get started with the package.
Since the release of v0.5.3
, the library now supports very rapid
loading of pre-collected data through the use of load_
functions.
The data available for loading is stored in the worldfootballR_data
repository. The repo can be found
here.
Head to the vignette here to see examples of which data is available for rapid loading.
To stay up-to-date with the latest changes, see the package change log
For FBref.com data (match and season data), a list of leagues and
seasons included in the package can be found in the
worldfootballR_data
repository and can be found
here
For transfermarkt.com data (valuations and transfers), a list of leagues
and seasons included in the package can be found in the
worldfootballR_data
repository and can be found
here
The following leagues are currently supported by Understat (these values
can be passed in to the league
arguments of most understat_
functions):
When using the functions in the package, please ensure you attribute the source of the data based on the function you use.
Data providers are listed below:
Special mention goes out to Ewan
Henderson’s awesome
understatr
library for the
inspiration and internal code for the understat_
functions contained
in this package.
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