nflfastR

5.2.0

Functions to Efficiently Access NFL Play by Play Data

3packages depend

36.5Kdownloads / year

61.5%test coverage

13/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Ben BaldwinFirst published 2020-09-0116 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

A set of functions to access National Football League play-by-play data from https://www.nfl.com/.

Install

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

install.packages("nflfastR", 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("nflverse/nflfastR")

Development version from nflverse/nflfastR. 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-nflfastr

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-nflfastR

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-nflfastR

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

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 3.8 min · r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-clang

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 0.03

61.5%

Coverage · measured lines

100%

Documentation · exports

Dependencies · direct

Check history

OK2026-06-09
13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
ERROR2026-06-08
12 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 1 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-03-10
14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMEYes · 657 wordsVignettesNopkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 100% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 0%
Documented parameters: 93%
Return-value docs: 82%
References docs: 0%

Downloads

36.5K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #3,377 · ~100/day · ~3K/mo

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Repository

GitHub ↗ nflverse/nflfastr

533Stars

67Forks

12Open issues

1Open PRs

31Releases

1,325Commits

8Contributors

crannflr-packagesports-analyticscran-rnflstatsnflverser

1,325 commits · Last activity 2026-05-06 · +0.2% stars, 30d

Stars over time

2026-07-14 · 5322026-07-22 · 533

Repository practices

Upstream repositoryBeta

8 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 6 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/nflverse/nflfastr on 2026-07-30.

Continuous integration (1)

GitHub Actions

Reproducibility and dev environment (1)

data-raw/

CRAN release process (1)

cran-comments.md

Docs source (1)

README.Rmd

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Lint, format, editor (3)

AirVS CodeRStudio project

Git structural (1)

blame-ignore revs

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

24 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 4.1.0

Imports (18)

cli curl data.table dplyr (>= 1.0.0)fastrmodels furrr future glue janitor lifecyclemgcvnflreadr progressr rlang stringr tibble tidyr xgboost

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (7)

DBI gsisdecoder nflseedR purrr rmarkdown RSQLite testthat

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

3direct

0indirect

NFLSimulatoR nfl4th nflverse

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (8)

Maintainer (1)

Ben Baldwin

Maintainer, Author

Authors (2)

Ben Baldwin

Maintainer, Author

Sebastian Carl

Author

Contributors (6)

John Edwards

Contributor · added in 4.3.0

Tan Ho

Contributor · added in 4.0.0

Contributor

Contributor

Contributor

Contributor

Package Timeline

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

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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18

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R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24

Package metadata

First published: 2020-09-01
Total releases: 16 / 6 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 4.1.0
Bundled data: 18 KB / 4 files
Download size: 1.1 MB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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