R Observatory: Metrics for nflreadr version 1.5.1

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

nflreadr

1.5.1Package record

Download 'nflverse' Data

6packages depend

43.6Kdownloads / year

78.7%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Tan HoCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗

A minimal package for downloading data from 'GitHub' repositories of the 'nflverse' project.

Changes in 1.5.1

Small bug fixes and hard deprecation of {qs} support to comply with CRAN issues.

load_teams() now accepts the argument file_type and respects the option "nflreadr.prefer".
nflverse_releases() and nflverse_download() now correctly work with tag names to find releases. (#296)
Stopped support of file_type "qs" and the deprecated the related function qs_from_url() because the underlying package qs has been removed from CRAN on 2026-01-17. Since the dependency is archived qs_from_url() will error. Please stop using it and make sure to change option(nflreadr.prefer) to one of "parquet", "rds", or "csv". (#303)
most_recent_season() (and its aliases get_latest_season() and get_current_season()) now flip the switch to the new season on Wednesday following Labor Day (used to be Thursday) as NFL announced that the 2026 season will kick off on Wednesday because the TNF game will be played in Australia. (#307)

Thank you to @AbhuTyagi, @gacolitti, @guga31bb, @Ic4ru5Wing, @isaactpetersen, @joeflan, @JoeMarino2021, @joshuafayallen, @mrcaseb, @nromano2, @patrickconners2334-glitch, @tanho63, and @TheMathNinja for their questions, feedback, and contributions towards this release.

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From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("nflreadr", 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/nflreadr")

Development version from nflverse/nflreadr. 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-nflreadr

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-nflreadr

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-nflreadr

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: 3.8 min · r-oldrel-macos-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 OK2026-04-19

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NOTE8 OK, 6 NOTE2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 1.5.1

READMEYes · 336 wordsVignettesYes · 23 · dynamicNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 1.5.1Citation fileNoWebsiteYes · pkgdown

The repository also keeps web-only articles.

Help pages: 77 (9 internal)includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 17%8 run in a plain check · 38 only when donttest examples are enabled (R CMD check --as-cran)
Exported functions with examples: 91%
Documented parameters: 76%
Return-value docs: 89%
Help pages citing references: 0%

Vignettes (23)

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How these are measured

Downloads

43.6K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #1,911 · ~119/day · ~3.6K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

3.3K30 days

10.2K90 days

43.6K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on260 r2u4 autocran84 c2d4u

How downloads are counted

Repository

nflverse/nflreadr ↗Organization: nflverse

115Stars

20Forks

9Open issues

0Open PRs

13Releases

592Commits

11Commit identities

nflnflverser-packagersports-datanflfastrcran

592 commits · Last activity 2026-09-17 · 0% stars, 30d · Default branch at 1.5.1.9002, ahead of CRAN 1.5.1 (checked 2026-10-21)

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 92%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 14
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 0

Stars over time

2026-07-14 · 1092026-09-20 · 115

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/nflverse/nflreadr on 2026-10-21.

Continuous integration (2)

GitHub ActionsR CMD check workflow

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

Governance and community (2)

Code of conductContributing guide

Docs source (4)

README.Rmdpkgdown

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2026-09-17 · The repository has a site deploy workflow

pkgdown site last built 2026-09-17

Coverage (1)

Coverage reporting (Codecov)

Show all practicesHide 4 practices

Reproducibility and dev environment (1)

data-raw/

CRAN release process (2)

cran-comments.mdrevdep/

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

Git structural (1)

blame-ignore revs

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

20 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing nflreadr adds 10 packages (8 with compiled code, 8.1 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: data.table 5.7 MB, rlang 766 KB, curl 714 KB.

Depends (1)

R >= 4.1.0

Imports (12)

cachem cli curl data.table glue lifecycle memoisemethodsrappdirs rlangtoolsutils

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (11)

arrow covr DT fs (>= 1.5.0)gh knitr piggyback progressr rmarkdown stringi testthat

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

6direct

1indirect

Imports 6

Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

nflfastR nflplotR nfl4th nflseedR nflverse ffscrapr

How these are counted

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (7)

Author

Contributor

Contributor

Contributor

Contributor · added in 1.3.0

Lee Sharpe

Contributor

Releases (13)

Pick two releases to compare their code metrics.

R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
1.5.1Latest
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2026-04-13 · current release · diff ↗
1.5.0
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2025-09-02 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
load_team_stats
R
R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
1.4.1
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2024-07-29 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
stat_mode
R
R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
1.4.0
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2023-09-05 · diff ↗ ·
added 3 exports
.for_cran, as.nflverse_data, load_ftn_charting
R
R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
1.3.2
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2023-01-06 · diff ↗ ·
added 2 exports
clear_cache, join_coalesce
1.3.1
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2022-09-25 · diff ↗ ·
added 2 exports
get_current_season, nflverse_game_id
1.3.0
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2022-08-06 · diff ↗ ·
added 12 exports
get_current_week, get_latest_season, load_contracts, load_from_url, load_officials, load_participation, load_players, load_rosters_weekly, nflverse_download, nflverse_releases, parquet_from_url, rbindlist_with_attrs
R
R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
1.2.0
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2022-03-17 · diff ↗
1.1.3
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2022-01-28 · diff ↗ ·
added 2 exports
load_ff_opportunity, most_recent_season
1.1.2
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2021-12-08 · diff ↗ ·
added 3 exports
.sitrep, ffverse_sitrep, nflverse_sitrep
1.1.1
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2021-10-05 · diff ↗ ·
added 4 exports
clean_homeaway, clean_player_names, clean_team_abbrs, load_pfr_advstats

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1.1.0
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2021-09-02 · diff ↗ ·
added 3 exports
csv_from_url, load_combine, progressively
1.0.0
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2021-08-09
R
R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18

Package metadata

First published: 2021-08-09
Total releases: 13 / 5 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 4.1.0
Bundled data: 40 KB / 26 files
Download size: 173 KB

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citation("nflreadr")

Format

Ho, T., Baldwin, B., Carl, S., Edwards, J., Mock, T., Rajaram, P., & Sharpe, L. (2026). nflreadr: Download 'nflverse' Data (Version 1.5.1) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.nflreadr

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Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for nflreadr version 1.5.1 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-23. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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