1. Overview The worldcup package is an R data package that provides a comprehensive, structured, and tidy dataset of all FIFA World Cup matches (men's and women's) from the tournament's inception through 2022 (as of the package's recent versions). Created and maintained by Joshua C. Fjelstul , the package is designed for sports analytics, data visualization, teaching data manipulation (especially with dplyr and ggplot2 ), and historical research on international football.
Example structure of matches :
(if used in academic work): Fjelstul, Joshua C. (2023). worldcup: All World Cup matches, goals, cards, etc. R package version 1.1.0. Would you like a hands-on code example or a visualization built from this package? r package worldcup fjelstul
# Install from CRAN install.packages("worldcup") install.packages("devtools") devtools::install_github("jfjelstul/worldcup") Load the package library(worldcup) 4. Main Datasets The package contains several tibbles. The most important ones are: Fjelstul , the package is designed for sports
