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Source: NEWS.md

ggfootball 0.3.0

  • BREAKING CHANGE: Migrated Understat scraper from HTML parsing to AJAX API calls. This changes the internal data structure and column names returned by get_match_shots().

  • Added gzip decompression handling for compressed responses.

  • Added input validation for match_id parameter.

  • Fixed type conversion issues for numeric columns (minute, xG, goals, etc.).

  • Improved error handling with clearer messages.

  • Removed unused dependencies: rvest, stringi, stringr, readr.

ggfootball 0.2.2

CRAN release: 2026-01-23

  • Added graceful error handling for Internet resources per CRAN policy.

ggfootball 0.2.1

CRAN release: 2025-03-22

  • Reduced dependencies.

ggfootball 0.2.0

CRAN release: 2025-01-31

  • BREAKING: Changed the name of the background_color argument of xg_chart() to bg_color.

  • BREAKING: Changed the default value of the competition argument of xg_chart() from “Premier League” to empty.

  • Added a new argument plot_bg_color for xg_chart() to allow the color modification of the whole plot background.

  • Changed the documentation accordingly.

ggfootball 0.1.0

CRAN release: 2025-01-30

  • Successful CRAN submission.

ggfootball 0.0.0.9000

  • First commit.
  • Added function for plotting xG/shots map using ‘Understat’ data xg_map().
  • Added function for plotting xG charts using ‘Understat’ data xg_chart().