fastRhockey: Functions to Access Professional Women's Hockey League and National Hockey League Play by Play Data

A utility to scrape and load play-by-play data and statistics from the Professional Women's Hockey League <https://www.thepwhl.com/>, formerly known as the Premier Hockey Federation (PHF) or National Women's Hockey League (NWHL). Additionally, allows access to the National Hockey League's stats API <https://www.nhl.com/>.

Version: 1.0.0
Depends: R (≥ 4.1.0)
Imports: cli (≥ 3.4.1), data.table (≥ 1.14.0), dplyr (≥ 1.0.10), glue, httr2 (≥ 1.0.0), janitor, jsonlite, lifecycle (≥ 1.0.0), lubridate, magrittr, purrr (≥ 1.0.0), Rcpp, RcppParallel, rlang (≥ 1.0.4), rvest (≥ 1.0.0), stringr (≥ 1.3.0), tibble (≥ 3.0), tidyr (≥ 1.0.0)
Suggests: crayon (≥ 1.3.4), curl, DBI, furrr, future, ggplot2, ggrepel, progressr (≥ 0.6.0), rmarkdown, RSQLite, stats, stringi, testthat (≥ 3.0.0), usethis (≥ 1.6.0), withr, xgboost, xml2 (≥ 1.3)
Published: 2026-08-25
DOI: 10.32614/CRAN.package.fastRhockey
Author: Ben Howell [aut], Saiem Gilani ORCID iD [aut, cre], Alyssa Longmuir [ctb], fastRhockey authors [cph]
Maintainer: Saiem Gilani <saiem.gilani at gmail.com>
BugReports: https://github.com/sportsdataverse/fastRhockey/issues
License: MIT + file LICENSE
URL: https://fastRhockey.sportsdataverse.org/, https://github.com/sportsdataverse/fastRhockey
NeedsCompilation: no
Citation: fastRhockey citation info
Materials: README, NEWS
In views: SportsAnalytics
CRAN checks: fastRhockey results

Documentation:

Reference manual: fastRhockey.html , fastRhockey.pdf

Downloads:

Package source: fastRhockey_1.0.0.tar.gz
Windows binaries: r-devel: fastRhockey_0.4.0.zip, r-release: fastRhockey_0.4.0.zip, r-oldrel: fastRhockey_1.0.0.zip
macOS binaries: r-release (arm64): fastRhockey_1.0.0.tgz, r-oldrel (arm64): fastRhockey_1.0.0.tgz, r-release (x86_64): fastRhockey_1.0.0.tgz, r-oldrel (x86_64): fastRhockey_1.0.0.tgz
Old sources: fastRhockey archive

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