R Observatory: Metrics for matchpointR version 0.1.0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

matchpointR

0.1.0Package record

Tidy Access to Women's Tennis Association (WTA) Data

0packages depend

1.8Kdownloads / year

71.9%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Alejandro Navas GonzálezCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Issues ↗

Scrapes and tidies publicly available data from the Women's Tennis Association website (https://www.wtatennis.com). Provides helpers to retrieve player biographies, singles and doubles career overviews, match histories, live rankings and aggregate statistics. Dynamic pages are rendered through a headless 'Chrome' session so 'JavaScript'-generated content is fully captured, and all outputs are returned as tidy data frames suitable for downstream analysis or visualisation.

Changes in 0.1.0

First public release.

Features

wta_player_url() builds canonical player URLs from a WTA numeric id, an optional slug and a section ("overview" or "matches").
wta_get_player_basics() returns a one-row tibble with the player's name, nationality, birth date and place, height, handedness, headshot and nationality flag. Biographical data is read from the page's schema.org JSON-LD block (with a CSS-selector fallback) for resilience against site redesigns.
wta_get_player_overview() returns a long tibble of career highlights (singles/doubles rank, career titles, career prize money, career-high singles rank).

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wta_get_player_matches() walks the "Matches" page, clicking *Show more* until the full history is loaded, and returns one row per match with tournament, tournament date, round, opponent, opponent seed and country code, opponent rank, score and win/loss result.
wta_get_rankings() scrapes the current singles or doubles ranking table and returns a tidy tibble (rank, player id, player, country, age, tournaments played, points).

Infrastructure

Tests (testthat 3rd edition) run entirely against local HTML fixtures — no network, no headless browser required for CI.
GitHub Actions workflows for R CMD check (Ubuntu / Windows / macOS × devel / release / oldrel-1) and pkgdown deployment.
Vignette "Getting started with matchpointR".

Not yet covered

Tour-wide statistics leaderboards (aces, winners, break-points converted, …) are tracked in issue #1 for a future release.

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("matchpointR", 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("Angnar-97/matchpointR")

Development version from Angnar-97/matchpointR. 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-matchpointr

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-matchpointR

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-matchpointR

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-devel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK5 OK2026-04-29

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 0.1.0

READMEYes · 330 wordsVignettesYes · 1 · staticNEWSYes · 67% structured · mentions 0.1.0Citation fileNo

Help pages: 8 (3 internal)includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 100%5 run in a plain check (4 of them under a condition)
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 0%

Vignettes (1)

Getting started with matchpointR HTML

How these are measured

Downloads

1.8K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #17,761 · ~5/day · ~151/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

26330 days

71890 days

1.8K1 year

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Also on30 r2u3 autocran

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Repository

angnar-97/matchpointr ↗Account: Angnar-97

0Stars

0Forks

1Open issues

0Open PRs

0Releases

tenniswta

Last activity 2026-04-26

Responsiveness

not measured

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PracticesBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/angnar-97/matchpointr on 2026-10-11.

Continuous integration (2)

GitHub ActionsR CMD check workflow

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

Docs source (2)

README.Rmdpkgdown

CRAN release process (2)

cran-comments.mdCRAN-SUBMISSION

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

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

AI coding toolsBeta

This repository shows signs of AI coding tools.

Claude Codefirst seen 2026-04-22
Commits: at least 5 crediting it in the message

Models named in its commits

Claude Opus 4.75 commits · Apr 2026

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Dependencies

Declared dependencies

15 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing matchpointR adds 38 packages (24 with compiled code, 31 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: stringi 11 MB, magick 4.4 MB, promises 3.1 MB.

Depends (1)

R >= 4.1.0

Imports (9)

chromote cli jsonlite magick purrr rvest stringr tibble xml2

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (6)

httr2 knitr rmarkdown rsvg testthat withr

Enhances (0)

none

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Reverse dependencies

0direct

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Nothing depends on this yet.

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (1)

Alejandro Navas González

Author, Maintainer since 0.1.0 (2026)

Angnar

Releases (1)

0.1.0Latest
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2026-04-28 · current release
R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24

Package metadata

First published: 2026-04-28
Total releases: 1 / 1 yrs
License: Apache License (>= 2)
Minimum R: ≥ 4.1.0
Download size: 173 KB

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citation("matchpointR")

Format

Navas González, A. (2026). matchpointR: Tidy Access to Women's Tennis Association (WTA) Data (Version 0.1.0) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.matchpointR

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

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for matchpointR version 0.1.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-19. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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