oddsapiR
To access the API, get a free API key from https://the-odds-api.com
Installation & Usage
Installation
You can install the released version of oddsapiR
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("sportsdataverse/oddsapiR")
# if you would prefer devtools installation
if (!requireNamespace('devtools', quietly = TRUE)){
install.packages('devtools')
}
# Alternatively, using the devtools package:
devtools::install_github(repo = "sportsdataverse/oddsapiR")
://github.com/sportsdataverse/oddsapi
git clone https
cd oddsapi-e "devtools::install()" Rscript
Odds API Keys
The Odds API requires an API key, here’s a quick run-down:
- Using the key: You can save the key for consistent usage by adding
ODDS_API_KEY=XXXX-YOUR-API-KEY-HERE-XXXXX
to your .Renviron file (easily accessed viausethis::edit_r_environ()
). Runusethis::edit_r_environ()
, a new script will pop open named.Renviron
, THEN paste the following in the new script that pops up (without quotations)
ODDS_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 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
ODDS_API_KEY
(with quotations) using a command like the following.
Sys.setenv(ODDS_API_KEY = "XXXX-YOUR-API-KEY-HERE-XXXXX")
Documentation
For more information on the package and function reference, please see the oddsapiR
documentation website.
Citations
To cite the oddsapiR
R package in publications, use:
BibTex Citation
@misc{gilani_2022_oddsapiR,
author = {Gilani, Saiem},
title = {oddsapiR: The SportsDataverse's R Package for The Odds API.},
url = {https://oddsapiR.sportsdataverse.org},
year = {2022}
}