cfbfastR

2.0.0

Access College Football Play by Play Data

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11.9Kdownloads / year

15.3%test coverage

13/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Saiem GilaniFirst published 2021-10-273 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

A utility to quickly obtain clean and tidy college football data. Serves as a wrapper around the https://collegefootballdata.com/ API and provides functions to access live play by play and box score data from ESPN https://www.espn.com when available. It provides users the capability to access a plethora of endpoints, and supplement that data with additional information (Expected Points Added/Win Probability added).

Install

R (CRAN)pak (dev)Ubuntu (r2u)Fedora (COPR)openSUSE (OBS)

install.packages("cfbfastR", repos = "https://cloud.r-project.org/")

Installs the current CRAN release. Prebuilt binaries on Windows and macOS.

if (!requireNamespace("pak", quietly = TRUE))
  install.packages("pak", repos = "https://cloud.r-project.org/")
pak::pak("sportsdataverse/cfbfastR")

Development version from sportsdataverse/cfbfastR. Installs pak first if it is not already available.

Release

# enable cranapt (r2u) if it is not already set up, then install
grep -rqs r2u.stat.illinois.edu /etc/apt/sources.list /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ \
  || curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/eddelbuettel/r2u/master/inst/scripts/add_cranapt_noble.sh | sudo bash
sudo apt install -y r-cran-cfbfastr

Fast Ubuntu binaries via r2u (no compilation). The cranapt setup runs once and is skipped when it is already enabled.

bspm (used by r2u) also needs make: sudo apt install make

# enable the iucar/cran COPR if it is not already present, then install
ls /etc/yum.repos.d/*iucar*cran*.repo >/dev/null 2>&1 \
  || sudo dnf copr enable -y iucar/cran
sudo dnf install -y R-CRAN-cfbfastR

RPMs from the iucar/cran COPR, rebuilt from CRAN.

For install.packages() integration in R, also: sudo dnf install R-CoprManager

# add the autoCRAN OBS repo (Tumbleweed) if it is missing, then install
zypper -q lr | grep -qi autoCRAN \
  || sudo zypper addrepo https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/devel:/languages:/R:/autoCRAN/openSUSE_Tumbleweed/devel:languages:R:autoCRAN.repo
sudo zypper install -y R-cfbfastR

RPMs auto-built from CRAN on openSUSE OBS (Tumbleweed).

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 4.8 min · r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-clang

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 0.16

15.3%

Coverage · measured lines

100%

Documentation · exports

Dependencies · direct

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Documentation

READMEYes · 573 wordsVignettesNopkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 100% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 2%
Documented parameters: 99%
Return-value docs: 100%
References docs: 0%

Downloads

11.9K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #4,579 · ~33/day · ~991/mo

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Repository

GitHub ↗ sportsdataverse/cfbfastr

99Stars

13Forks

3Open issues

1Open PRs

11Releases

412Commits

31Contributors

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412 commits · Last activity 2026-07-18

PRs over time

2026-07-14 · 02026-07-19 · 1

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cran-comments.md

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README.Rmd

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Dependencies

Declared dependencies

29 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 4.1.0

Imports (19)

cli data.table dplyr glue httr janitor jsonlite lubridate magrittrmgcvnnetprogressr purrr Rcpp RcppParallel rlang stringr tibble tidyr

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none

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People (15)

Maintainer (1)

Saiem Gilani

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Authors (4)

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Contributors (11)

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Contributor

Contributor · added in 1.9.0

Michael Egle

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Brad Hill

Contributor · added in 2.0.0

Tan Ho

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Conor McQuiston

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Tej Seth

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Package Timeline

3 releases. Pick two to compare their code metrics. R releases are shown for context.

R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
2.0.0Latest
2025-09-09 · current release · diff ↗
unarchivedReturned to CRAN
2025-09-09
R
R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
R
R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
archivedRemoved from CRAN
2024-04-20
issues were not corrected despite reminders
R
R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
1.9.0
2022-06-14 · diff ↗
unarchivedReturned to CRAN
2022-06-14
archivedRemoved from CRAN
2022-06-11
check issues were not corrected in time
R
R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
1.6.4
2021-10-27
R
R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18

Package metadata

First published: 2021-10-27
Total releases: 3 / 5 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 4.1.0
Bundled data: 1.1 KB / 2 files
Download size: 176 KB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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