R Observatory: Metrics for nfl4th version 1.0.7

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

nfl4th

1.0.7

Functions to Calculate Optimal Fourth Down Decisions in the National Football League

1packages depend

10Kdownloads / year

62.9%test coverage

13/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Ben BaldwinFirst published 2021-03-178 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

A set of functions to estimate outcomes of fourth down plays in the National Football League and obtain fourth down plays from https://www.nfl.com/ and https://www.espn.com/.

Install

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

install.packages("nfl4th", 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("nflverse/nfl4th")

Development version from nflverse/nfl4th. 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-nfl4th

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-nfl4th

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

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 2.3 min · r-release-macos-x86_64

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 0.08

62.9%

Coverage · measured lines

100%

Documentation · exports

15

Dependencies · direct

Check history

OK2026-08-05
13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
NOTE2026-08-01
12 OK · 1 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-07-11
13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
ERROR2026-07-10
12 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 1 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-06-09
13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Show 2 earlier snapshots

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 · 371 wordsVignettesNopkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 100% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 86%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
References docs: 0%

Downloads

10K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #4,742 · ~27/day · ~835/mo

Releases R versions

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44130 days

1.6K90 days

10K1 year

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Repository

GitHub ↗ nflverse/nfl4th

22Stars

5Forks

2Open issues

0Open PRs

10Releases

583Commits

4Contributors

crannflnfl-analyticsnflfastr

583 commits · Last activity 2026-08-06

Forks over time

2026-07-14 · 62026-08-20 · 5

Repository practices

Upstream repositoryBeta

8 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 6 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/nflverse/nfl4th on 2026-08-23.

Continuous integration (1)

GitHub Actions

Reproducibility and dev environment (1)

data-raw/

CRAN release process (1)

cran-comments.md

Docs source (1)

README.Rmd

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Lint, format, editor (3)

AirVS CodeRStudio project

Git structural (1)

blame-ignore revs

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v1 (2026-07-18)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

22 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 4.1

Imports (15)

cli curl data.table dplyr janitor jsonlitemgcvnflfastR nflreadr purrr rlang stringr tibble tidyr xgboost

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (8)

future gt knitr nflplotR rmarkdown testthat tictoc withr

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

1direct

0indirect

nflverse

Code & Tests

People & History

People (2)

Maintainer (1)

Ben Baldwin

Author, Maintainer, Copyright holder

Authors (1)

Ben Baldwin

Author, Maintainer, Copyright holder

Contributors (1)

Sebastian Carl

Contributor

Copyright holders (1)

Ben Baldwin

Author, Maintainer, Copyright holder

Package Timeline

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

R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
1.0.7Latest
2026-03-04 · current release · diff ↗
1.0.6
2026-02-17 · diff ↗
1.0.5
2026-02-10 · diff ↗
R
R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
R
R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
1.0.4
2023-08-21 · diff ↗
1.0.3
2023-08-10 · diff ↗
R
R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
1.0.2
2022-08-11 · diff ↗
R
R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
1.0.1
2021-10-16 · diff ↗
R
R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
1.0.0
2021-03-17
R
R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24

Package metadata

First published: 2021-03-17
Total releases: 8 / 5 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 4.1
Download size: 336 KB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("nfl4th")

Format

Baldwin, B., & Carl, S. (2026). nfl4th: Functions to Calculate Optimal Fourth Down Decisions in the National Football League (Version 1.0.7) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.nfl4th

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for nfl4th version 1.0.7 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-08-25. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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