The goal of cfbfastR is to provide the community with an R package for working with CFB data. It is an R API wrapper around https://collegefootballdata.com/. Beyond data aggregation and tidying ease, one of the multitude of services that cfbfastR provides is for benchmarking open-source expected points and win probability metrics.

You can install the released version of cfbfastR 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/cfbfastR", dependencies = TRUE, update = TRUE)

# if you would prefer devtools installation
if (!requireNamespace('devtools', quietly = TRUE)){
  install.packages('devtools')
}
# Alternatively, using the devtools package:
devtools::install_github(repo = "saiemgilani/cfbfastR")

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The CollegeFootballData API now requires an API key, here’s a quick run-down:

• To get an API key, follow the directions here: College Football Data Key Registration.

• Using the key: You can save the key for consistent usage by adding CFBD_API_KEY=XXXX-YOUR-API-KEY-HERE-XXXXX to your .Renviron file (easily accessed via usethis::edit_r_environ()). Run usethis::edit_r_environ(), a new script will pop open named .Renviron, THEN paste the following in the new script that pops up (without quotations)

CFBD_API_KEY = XXXX-YOUR-API-KEY-HERE-XXXXX

Save the script and restart your RStudio session, by clicking Session (in between Plots and Build) and click Restart R (there also exists the shortcut Ctrl + Shift + F10 to restart your session). If set correctly, from then on you should be able to use any of the cfbd_ functions without any other changes.

• For less consistent usage: At the beginning of every session or within an R environment, save your API key as the environment variable CFBD_API_KEY (with quotations) using a command like the following.

Sys.setenv(CFBD_API_KEY = "XXXX-YOUR-API-KEY-HERE-XXXXX")

• Saiem Gilani
  

• Akshay Easwaran
  

• Jared Lee
  

• Eric Hess
  

• Nate Manzo
  

• Michael Egle
  

• Jason DeLoach
  

• Tej Seth
  

• Conor McQuiston
  

• Tan Ho
  

• Keegan Abdoo
  

• Matt Spencer
  

• Sebastian Carl
  

• Meyappan Subbiah
  

• Parker Fleming
  

• Nick Tice

To cite the cfbfastR R package in publications, use:

BibTex Citation

@misc{sgetal2021cfbfastr,
  author = {Saiem Gilani and Akshay Easwaran and Jared Lee and Eric Hess},
  title = {cfbfastR: The SportsDataverse's R Package for College Football Data.},
  url = {https://saiemgilani.github.io/cfbfastR/},
  year = {2021}
}