R Observatory: Metrics for ggfootball version 0.3.0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

ggfootball

0.3.0

Plotting Football Matches Expected Goals (xG) Stats with 'Understat' Data

0packages depend

2.8Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

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Overview

About

Maintained by Aymen NasriCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗

Scrapes football match shots data from 'Understat' https://understat.com/ and visualizes it using interactive plots: - A detailed shot map displaying the location, type, and xG value of shots taken by both teams. - An xG timeline chart showing the cumulative xG for each team over time, annotated with the details of scored goals.

Changes in 0.3.0

**BREAKING CHANGE**: Migrated Understat scraper from HTML parsing to AJAX API calls. This changes the internal data structure and column names returned by get_match_shots().
Added gzip decompression handling for compressed responses.
Added input validation for match_id parameter.
Fixed type conversion issues for numeric columns (minute, xG, goals, etc.).
Improved error handling with clearer messages.
Removed unused dependencies: rvest, stringi, stringr, readr.

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("ggfootball", 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("aymennasri/ggfootball")

Development version from aymennasri/ggfootball. 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-ggfootball

Fast Ubuntu binaries via r2u (no compilation). The cranapt setup runs once and is skipped when it is already enabled. We list this channel from recorded r2u download activity rather than from a live index of the repository, so treat it as last known rather than guaranteed.

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-ggfootball

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-ggfootball

RPMs auto-built from CRAN on openSUSE OBS (Tumbleweed). We list this channel from recorded autoCRAN download activity rather than from a live index of the repository, so treat it as last known rather than guaranteed.

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

CRAN check page ↗

Slowest check: 1.1 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK13 OK2026-06-09
ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-06-08
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 0.3.0

READMEYes · 136 wordsVignettesNoNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 0.3.0Citation fileNoWebsiteYes · pkgdown

Help pages: 2
Examples that run: 0%2 never run
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 0%

How these are measured

Downloads

2.8K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #17,213 · ~8/day · ~231/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

31030 days

72090 days

2.8K1 year

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How downloads are counted

Repository

aymennasri/ggfootball ↗Account: aymennasri

1Stars

0Forks

0Open issues

0Open PRs

5Releases

39Commits

2Commit identities

footballfootball-analyticsfootball-datafootball-scoresrrpackagecranr-package

License file reads as GPL-3.0 · 39 commits · Last activity 2026-01-23

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): not measured
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 0
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: not measured

Stars over time

2025-01-31 · 12026-07-07 · 1

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/aymennasri/ggfootball on 2026-10-11.

Continuous integration (1)

GitHub Actions

Docs source (4)

README.Rmdpkgdown

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2026-01-23 · The repository has a site deploy workflow

CRAN release process (2)

cran-comments.mdrevdep/

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v3 (2026-09-26)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

12 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing ggfootball adds 93 packages (51 with compiled code, 85 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: stringi 11 MB, ggplot2 6.0 MB, data.table 5.7 MB.

Depends (1)

R >= 4.1.0

Imports (12)

base64enc dplyr gdtools gfonts ggiraph ggplot2 ggsoccer glue highcharter httr jsonlite tibble

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (0)

none

Enhances (0)

none

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Reverse dependencies

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How these are counted

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People & History

People (1)

Aymen Nasri

Releases (5)

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
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Package metadata

First published: 2025-01-30
Total releases: 5 / 1 yrs
License: GPL (>= 3) OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 4.1.0
Download size: 72 KB

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Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("ggfootball")

Format

Nasri, A. (2026). ggfootball: Plotting Football Matches Expected Goals (xG) Stats with 'Understat' Data (Version 0.3.0) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.ggfootball

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for ggfootball version 0.3.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-17. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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