ncaavolleyballr (development version)
The 2025 season has begun, and this version has updated the
current_season()
to 2025 to allow scraping this season’s data.The package website now includes a data page that includes all data from 2020-2024 as separate files for each sport, data level, dividion, and year.
Data output now includes contest ID or team ID columns to facilitate joining datasets.
Most of NCAA’s websites now using JavaScript with loading pages, so most functions now use
rvest::read_live_html()
. Unfortunately, this has resulted in much slower processing of data, and large-scale scraping triggers IP address bans.
Package development
Chromote sessions are now closed after scraping data.
Unit testing is greatly expanded and improved to test the code better.
Documentation uses inherited notes to simplify documentation changes.
Air is now used to format code.
ncaavolleyballr 0.4.3
CRAN release: 2025-07-22
NCAA’s game-by-game website introduced a loading page that disrupted
team_season_stats()
andteam_match_stats()
.team_season_stats()
now gets the info from a different page.team_match_stats()
now uses thervest::read_live_html()
function, which requires the chromote package and access to Google Chrome.Catch contests with too many sets and return warning instead of error
ncaavolleyballr 0.4.2
CRAN release: 2025-03-30
Increase minimum R version to 4.2
Wrap all URL requests in
tryCatch()
to ensure internet connection problems fail gracefully.Change examples to interactive only and note functions that require internet activity.
Skip testing on CRAN for tests requiring internet connections.
Switch vignette to pre-built Rmd file.
ncaavolleyballr 0.4.1
CRAN release: 2025-01-23
Remove examples from
division_stats()
andget_teams()
documentation.Remove deprecated
group_player_stats()
.
ncaavolleyballr 0.4.0
Update status to active and lifecycle to stable.
Create
team_season_info()
,team_season_stats()
, andteam_match_stats()
functions to output team-related information.Create
division_stats()
andconference_stats()
to aggregate season, match, and play-by-play statistics over divisions and conferences.Create vignette to help Get Started.
Update logo.
Remove duplication of match and play-by-play stats in
group_stats()
.Create more descriptive warnings when teams or matches are missing.
Improve handling of seasons and matches with no data. These cases are skipped with a warning instead of stopping with an error.
Create suite of functions to check argument input
Skip all URL request tests on CRAN and CI
ncaavolleyballr 0.3.0
Improve output of
match_pbp()
to parse events and players.Improve output of
find_team_contests()
to include record, attendance, and canceled matches.Add match and play-by-play levels to
group_stats()
.Fix bug in
group_stats()
when matches are canceled.Replace term “visitor” with “away”.
-
DEPRECATION:
-
group_player_stats()
has been renamedgroup_stats()
. -
conference_player_stats()
has been renamedconference_season_stats()
. -
division_player_stats()
has been renameddivision_season_stats()
.
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ncaavolleyballr 0.2.0
Add match-level functions
find_team_contests()
,player_match_stats()
, andtest match_pbp()
for extracting match/contest IDs, player statistics, and play-by-play information.DEPRECATION:
team_player_stats()
has been renamedplayer_season_stats()
.