wehoop is an R package for working with women’s college and
professional basketball 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 women’s college basketball and WNBA 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 CRAN version of
wehoop with:
install.packages("wehoop")You can install the released version of
wehoop from
GitHub with:
# You can install using the pak package using the following code:
if (!requireNamespace('pak', quietly = TRUE)){
install.packages('pak')
}
pak::pak("sportsdataverse/wehoop")tictoc::tic()
progressr::with_progress({
wnba_pbp <- wehoop::load_wnba_pbp()
})## Warning in readRDS(con): cannot open URL
## 'https://github.com/sportsdataverse/sportsdataverse-data/releases/download/espn_wnba_pbp/play_by_play_2026.rds':
## HTTP status was '404 Not Found'
## Warning: Failed to readRDS from
## <https://github.com/sportsdataverse/sportsdataverse-data/releases/download/espn_wnba_pbp/play_by_play_2026.rds>
tictoc::toc()## 0.31 sec elapsed
## Warning: Unknown or uninitialised column: `game_id`.
## 0 rows of WNBA play-by-play data from 0 games.
tictoc::tic()
progressr::with_progress({
wbb_pbp <- wehoop::load_wbb_pbp()
})
tictoc::toc()## 10.41 sec elapsed
## 2824090 rows of women's college basketball play-by-play data from 6011 games.
For more information on the package and function reference, please see
the wehoop documentation
website.
To cite the wehoop R package
in publications, use:
BibTex Citation
@misc{hutchinson_gilani_2021_wehoop,
title = {wehoop: Access Women’s Basketball Play by Play Data},
url = {http://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.wehoop},
DOI = {10.32614/cran.package.wehoop},
journal = {CRAN: Contributed Packages},
publisher = {The R Foundation},
author = {Gilani, Saiem and Hutchinson, Geoffery},
year = {2021},
month = nov
}