R Observatory: Metrics for golfastr version 0.2.0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

golfastr

0.2.0Package record

Efficiently Access Pro Golf Data

0packages depend

2.4Kdownloads / year

35.9%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Ray CarpenterCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Issues ↗

Fetch Professional Golfers' Association (PGA) Tour tournament data from ESPN https://www.espn.com/golf/ including leaderboards and hole-by-hole scoring. Data is returned in tidy tibble format ready for analysis. Supports local storage via RDS or 'Apache Arrow' Parquet files for fast repeated access. Designed for golf analytics, data journalism, and fantasy sports research.

Install

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

install.packages("golfastr", 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("array-carpenter/golfastr")

Development version from array-carpenter/golfastr. 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-golfastr

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-golfastr

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-golfastr

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: 1.5 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK13 OK2026-05-12
WARNING12 OK, 1 WARNING2026-05-11
OK12 OK2026-04-25

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NOTE13 OK, 1 NOTE2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 0.2.0

READMEYes · 365 wordsVignettesNoNEWSYes · 100% structured · does not mention 0.2.0Citation fileNo

The repository also keeps web-only articles.

Help pages: 53 (12 internal)includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 13%5 run in a plain check · 11 only when donttest examples are enabled (R CMD check --as-cran) · 24 never run
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: 98%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 0%

How these are measured

Downloads

2.4K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #9,558 · ~7/day · ~204/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

37030 days

1K90 days

2.4K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on53 r2u3 autocran

How downloads are counted

Repository

array-carpenter/golfastr ↗Account: array-carpenter

6Stars

1Forks

0Open issues

0Open PRs

9Releases

39Commits

1Commit identities

39 commits · Last activity 2026-09-14 · 0% stars, 30d · Default branch at 0.2.1, ahead of CRAN 0.2.0 (checked 2026-10-21)

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 100%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: not measured
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 0

Stars over time

2026-01-24 · 12026-07-15 · 6

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

8 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 5 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/array-carpenter/golfastr on 2026-10-21.

Continuous integration (2)

GitHub ActionsR CMD check workflow

The R CMD check workflow runs on Linux, macOS and Windows

Docs source (3)

pkgdown

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2026-09-14 · The repository has a site deploy workflow

Reproducibility and dev environment (1)

data-raw/

CRAN release process (1)

cran-comments.md

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Git structural (1)

.gitattributes

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v4 (2026-10-20)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

6 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing golfastr adds 20 packages (13 with compiled code, 7.3 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: openssl 1.1 MB, vctrs 1.0 MB, dplyr 902 KB.

Depends (1)

R >= 4.0

Imports (3)

httr2 dplyr tibble

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (3)

testthat arrow ggplot2

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Nothing depends on this yet.

How these are counted

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (1)

Ray Carpenter

Releases (2)

Pick two releases to compare their code metrics.

R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
0.2.0Latest
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2026-02-18 · current release · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
load_strokes_gained
0.1.5
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2026-02-12
R
R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11

Package metadata

First published: 2026-02-12
Total releases: 2 / 1 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 4.0
Bundled data: 6.1 KB / 1 file
Download size: 190 KB

Appears in task views

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Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("golfastr")

Format

Carpenter, R. (2026). golfastr: Efficiently Access Pro Golf Data (Version 0.2.0) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.golfastr

This package has no citation file, so citation() returns this entry built from DESCRIPTION.

Cite the R Observatory

For a number measured here: a download total, a coverage figure, an archival date.

Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for golfastr version 0.2.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-23. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

From data release v2026-10-23, which the citation names so these numbers can be found later. More on citing and the projects behind them.

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