usfootballR
is an R package for working with American soccer data. The package has functions to access live play-by-play and box score data from ESPN with shot locations when available.
A scraping and aggregating interface for ESPN’s MLS and NWSL statistics. It provides users with the capability to access the API’s game play-by-plays, box scores, standings and results to analyze the data for themselves.
You can install the released version of usfootballR
from GitHub with:
# You can install using the pacman package using the following code:
if (!requireNamespace('pacman', quietly = TRUE)){
install.packages('pacman')
}
pacman::p_load_current_gh("saiemgilani/usfootballR", dependencies = TRUE, update = TRUE)
For more information on the package and function reference, please see the usfootballR
documentation website.