In saiemgilani/oddsapiR: Access Live Sports Odds from the Odds API

oddsapiR

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To access the API, get a free API key from https://the-odds-api.com

Installation & Usage

Installation

You can install the released version of oddsapiR from GitHub with:

# You can install using the pacman package using the following code:
if (!requireNamespace('pacman', quietly = TRUE)){
  install.packages('pacman')
}
pacman::p_load_current_gh("sportsdataverse/oddsapiR")

# if you would prefer devtools installation
if (!requireNamespace('devtools', quietly = TRUE)){
  install.packages('devtools')
}
# Alternatively, using the devtools package:
devtools::install_github(repo = "sportsdataverse/oddsapiR")

git clone https://github.com/sportsdataverse/oddsapi
cd oddsapi
Rscript -e "devtools::install()"

Odds API Keys

The Odds API requires an API key, here's a quick run-down:

Using the key: You can save the key for consistent usage by adding ODDS_API_KEY=XXXX-YOUR-API-KEY-HERE-XXXXX to your .Renviron file (easily accessed via usethis::edit_r_environ()). Run usethis::edit_r_environ(), a new script will pop open named .Renviron, THEN paste the following in the new script that pops up (without quotations)

ODDS_API_KEY = XXXX-YOUR-API-KEY-HERE-XXXXX

Save the script and restart your RStudio session, by clicking Session (in between Plots and Build) and click Restart R (there also exists the shortcut Ctrl + Shift + F10 to restart your session). If set correctly, from then on you should be able to use any of the functions without any other changes.

For less consistent usage: At the beginning of every session or within an R environment, save your API key as the environment variable ODDS_API_KEY (with quotations) using a command like the following.

Sys.setenv(ODDS_API_KEY = "XXXX-YOUR-API-KEY-HERE-XXXXX")

Documentation

For more information on the package and function reference, please see the oddsapiR documentation website.

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Our Authors

Saiem Gilani

Citations

To cite the oddsapiR R package in publications, use:

BibTex Citation

@misc{gilani_2022_oddsapiR,
  author = {Gilani, Saiem},
  title = {oddsapiR: The SportsDataverse's R Package for The Odds API.},
  url = {https://oddsapiR.sportsdataverse.org},
  year = {2022}
}