videogameinsightsR

0.1.1

Interface to 'Video Game Insights' API for Gaming Market Analytics

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2.2Kdownloads / year

10.6%test coverage

13/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Phillip BlackFirst published 2026-03-061 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Interface to the 'Video Game Insights' API https://app.sensortower.com/vgi/ for video game market analytics and intelligence. Provides functions to retrieve game metadata, developer and publisher information, player statistics (concurrent players, daily and monthly active users), revenue and sales data, review analytics, wish-list tracking, and platform-specific rankings. The package includes data processing utilities to analyze player demographics, track pricing history, calculate player overlap between games, and monitor market trends. Supports analysis across multiple gaming platforms including 'Steam', 'PlayStation', 'Xbox', and 'Nintendo' with unified data structures for cross-platform comparison.

Install

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

install.packages("videogameinsightsR", 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("econosopher/videogameinsightsR")

Development version from econosopher/videogameinsightsR. 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-videogameinsightsr

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

# 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-videogameinsightsR

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

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 2.3 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 0.39

10.6%

Coverage · measured lines

100%

Documentation · exports

Dependencies · direct

Check history

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OK2026-06-09
13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
ERROR2026-06-07
12 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 1 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-03-10
10 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMEYes · 327 wordsVignettesNopkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 100% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

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

Downloads

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CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #8,765 · ~6/day · ~185/mo

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Repository

GitHub ↗ econosopher/videogameinsightsr

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2Contributors

29 commits · Last activity 2026-03-03 · 0% stars, 30d

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Repository practices

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4 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 3 families in the upstream repository

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Continuous integration (1)

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CRAN release process (2)

cran-comments.mdCRAN-SUBMISSION

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Dependencies

Declared dependencies

19 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 4.1.0

Imports (11)

dplyr httr2 jsonlite digest rlang tibble tidyr purrr rveststatsmagrittr

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none

Suggests (9)

dotenv ggplot2 gt httptest2 knitr rmarkdown scales testthat withr

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Code & Tests

People & History

People (1)

Maintainer (1)

Phillip Black

Author, Maintainer

Authors (1)

Phillip Black

Author, Maintainer

Package Timeline

1 release. R releases are shown for context.

R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
0.1.1Latest
2026-03-10 · current release
R
R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11

Package metadata

First published: 2026-03-06
Total releases: 1 / 1 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 4.1.0
Download size: 172 KB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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