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worldfootballR

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Overview

This package is designed to allow users to extract various world football results and player statistics from the following popular football (soccer) data sites:

Installation

As at 2024-06-29, we are no longer including instructions to install from CRAN. The version pushed to CRAN is very much out of date, and with very regular updates to this library, we advise installing from GitHub only.

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

# install.packages("devtools")
devtools::install_github("JaseZiv/worldfootballR")

Usage

Package vignettes have been built to help you get started with the package.

  • For functions to extract data from FBref, see here
  • For functions to extract data from Transfermarkt, see here
  • For functions to extract data from Understat, see here
  • For functions to extract data for international matches from FBref, see here
  • For functions to load pre-scraped data, see here

Loading Data

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.

News

To stay up-to-date with the latest changes, see the package change log

Note that fotmob data is no longer provided since the release of v0.6.4 due to a change in their terms of service.

Leagues and Seasons

FBref

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

Transfermarkt

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

Understat

The following leagues are currently supported by Understat (these values can be passed in to the league arguments of most understat_ functions):

  • “EPL”
  • “La liga”
  • “Bundesliga”
  • “Serie A”
  • “Ligue 1”
  • “RFPL”

Attribute the Source

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:

Acknowledgements

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.

Contributing

Issues and Improvements

Before creating an issue, please ensure you have the latest version installed from GitHub. Check the changelog for more details on changes that have been made to the library.

When creating an issue, please include:

  • Reproducible examples
  • A brief description of what the expected results are
  • If applicable, the fbref.com, transfermarkt.com or understat.com page the observed behaviour is occurring on
  • For improvement suggestions, what features are being requested and their purpose

Feel free to get in touch via email or Bluesky if you aren’t able to create an issue.

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