golfastr

0.2.0

Efficiently Access Pro Golf Data

0packages depend

1.4Kdownloads / year

35.9%test coverage

13/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Ray CarpenterFirst published 2026-02-122 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Fetch Professional Golfers' Association (PGA) Tour tournament data from ESPN https://www.espn.com/golf/ including leaderboards and hole-by-hole scoring. Data is returned in tidy tibble format ready for analysis. Supports local storage via RDS or 'Apache Arrow' Parquet files for fast repeated access. Designed for golf analytics, data journalism, and fantasy sports research.

Install

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

install.packages("golfastr", 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("array-carpenter/golfastr")

Development version from array-carpenter/golfastr. 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-golfastr

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-golfastr

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-golfastr

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

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 1.5 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 0.07

35.9%

Coverage · measured lines

100%

Documentation · exports

Dependencies · direct

Check history

OK2026-05-12
13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
WARNING2026-05-11
12 OK · 0 NOTE · 1 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-04-25
12 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
NOTE2026-03-10
13 OK · 1 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMEYes · 365 wordsVignettesNopkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 100% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 13%
Documented parameters: 98%
Return-value docs: 100%
References docs: 0%

Downloads

1.4K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #19,153 · ~4/day · ~115/mo

Releases R versions

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21330 days

62590 days

1.4K1 year

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Repository

GitHub ↗ array-carpenter/golfastr

6Stars

1Forks

0Open issues

0Open PRs

4Releases

37Commits

1Contributors

37 commits · Last activity 2026-07-09 · +50% stars, 30d

Stars over time

2026-01-24 · 12026-07-15 · 6

Repository practices

Upstream repositoryBeta

4 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 4 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/array-carpenter/golfastr on 2026-07-19.

Continuous integration (1)

GitHub Actions

Reproducibility and dev environment (1)

data-raw/

CRAN release process (1)

cran-comments.md

Git structural (1)

.gitattributes

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v1 (2026-07-18)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

6 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 4.0

Imports (3)

httr2 dplyr tibble

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (3)

testthat arrow ggplot2

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Nothing depends on this yet.

Code & Tests

Code Composition

R 2,334 (63%)Rd 1,399 (37%)

Code characteristics

Cyclomatic complexity: 2.0 median / 11 max
Test cases: 11 / 0.07 per code line

Test coverage

Line coverage

36%

Expression

26.8%

Tests / Examples

35.9% / 16% ex

Functions

54 43 exported

Complexity

3.4 avg / 11 max

Call network

54 nodes / 62 edges

Call graph

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Lowest coverage

54 functions

Function	Cyclo	Coverage
build_season exp	7	0%
check_season exp	4	0%
compare_players exp	2	0%
field_strength exp	2	0%
get_majors exp	2	0%
get_player exp	3	0%

Datasets

Bundled datasets · 1

Name	Class	Rows × Cols	Also ships in
strokes_gained	tbl_df/tbl/data.frame	182 × 11	–

People & History

People (1)

Maintainer (1)

Ray Carpenter

Author, Maintainer, Copyright holder

Authors (1)

Ray Carpenter

Author, Maintainer, Copyright holder

Ray Carpenter

Author, Maintainer, Copyright holder

Package Timeline

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

R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
0.2.0Latest
2026-02-18 · current release · diff ↗
0.1.5
2026-02-12
R
R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11

Package metadata

First published: 2026-02-12
Total releases: 2 / 1 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 4.0
Bundled data: 6.1 KB / 1 file
Download size: 190 KB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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