The goal of footballdatr is to enable easy use of football-data.co.uk data within R.
You can install the footballdatr from Github with:
devtools::install_github("torvaney/footballdatr")To download Premier League data for the 2018/19 season:
footballdatr::fetch_data(
"England", # Country
0, # Division tier (0 = highest)
2018 # Season (start year)
)
#> # A tibble: 380 x 24
#> competition date home away hgoal agoal result hgoal_ht agoal_ht
#> <chr> <date> <chr> <chr> <int> <int> <chr> <int> <int>
#> 1 E0 2018-08-10 Man … Leic… 2 1 H 1 0
#> 2 E0 2018-08-11 Bour… Card… 2 0 H 1 0
#> 3 E0 2018-08-11 Fulh… Crys… 0 2 A 0 1
#> 4 E0 2018-08-11 Hudd… Chel… 0 3 A 0 2
#> 5 E0 2018-08-11 Newc… Tott… 1 2 A 1 2
#> 6 E0 2018-08-11 Watf… Brig… 2 0 H 1 0
#> 7 E0 2018-08-11 Wolv… Ever… 2 2 D 1 1
#> 8 E0 2018-08-12 Arse… Man … 0 2 A 0 1
#> 9 E0 2018-08-12 Live… West… 4 0 H 2 0
#> 10 E0 2018-08-12 Sout… Burn… 0 0 D 0 0
#> # … with 370 more rows, and 15 more variables: result_ht <chr>,
#> # referee <chr>, hshot <int>, ashot <int>, hshot_on_target <int>,
#> # ashot_on_target <int>, hfoul <int>, afoul <int>, hcorner <int>,
#> # acorner <int>, hyellow <int>, ayellow <int>, hred <int>, ared <int>,
#> # closing_odds <list>To view the available competitions
footballdatr::ls_countries()
#> Available countries: belgium, england, france, germany, greece, italy, portugal, scotland, spain, turkey