RDota2

0.1.6

An R Steam API Client for Valve's Dota2

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2.3Kdownloads / year

52.9%test coverage

13/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Theo BoutarisFirst published 2016-10-301 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

An R API Client for Valve's Dota2. RDota2 can be easily used to connect to the Steam API and retrieve data for Valve's popular video game Dota2. You can find out more about Dota2 at http://store.steampowered.com/app/570/.

Install

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

install.packages("RDota2", 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("LyzandeR/RDota2")

Development version from LyzandeR/RDota2. 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-rdota2

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-RDota2

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

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 1.2 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Check history

OK2026-04-25
12 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
NOTE2026-03-10
11 OK · 3 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

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Downloads

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Repository

GitHub ↗ lyzander/rdota2

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41Commits

1Contributors

41 commits · Last activity 2020-04-19

Repository practices

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Checks run against github.com/lyzander/rdota2 on 2026-07-19.

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Travis CI

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Dependencies

Declared dependencies

5 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 3.2.0

Imports (2)

httr jsonlite

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Code & Tests

People & History

People (1)

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Theo Boutaris

Author, Maintainer, Copyright holder

Authors (1)

Theo Boutaris

Author, Maintainer, Copyright holder

Theo Boutaris

Author, Maintainer, Copyright holder

Package Timeline

1 release. R releases are shown for context.

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
0.1.6Latest
2026-03-10 · current release
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11

Package metadata

First published: 2016-10-30
Total releases: 1 / 10 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Download size: 49 KB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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