ggfootball

0.3.0

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

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Overview

About

Maintained by Aymen NasriFirst published 2025-01-305 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

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.

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.

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).

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

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

Code health

None

Tests · ratio 0.00

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Coverage

100%

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Check history

OK2026-06-09
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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 · 136 wordsVignettesNopkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 100% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

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

Downloads

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CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #16,799 · ~7/day · ~224/mo

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Repository

GitHub ↗ aymennasri/ggfootball

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

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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

Checks run against github.com/aymennasri/ggfootball on 2026-07-30.

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Docs source (1)

README.Rmd

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Dependencies

Declared dependencies

12 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 4.1.0

Imports (12)

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

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Suggests (0)

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People & History

People (1)

Maintainer (1)

Aymen Nasri

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Authors (1)

Aymen Nasri

Author, Maintainer, Copyright holder

Aymen Nasri

Author, Maintainer, Copyright holder

Package Timeline

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

R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
0.3.0Latest
2026-01-23 · current release · diff ↗
0.2.2
2026-01-23 · diff ↗
unarchivedReturned to CRAN
2026-01-23
archivedRemoved from CRAN
2026-01-15
policy violation On Internet access
R
R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
0.2.1
2025-03-23 · diff ↗
0.2.0
2025-01-31 · diff ↗
0.1.0
2025-01-30
R
R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24

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
Installed size: not tracked yet
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