Load any rds/csv/csv.gz/parquet/qs file from a remote URL
Arguments
- url
a vector of URLs to load into memory. If more than one URL provided, will row-bind them.
- ...
named arguments that will be added as attributes to the data, e.g.
nflverse_type= "pbp"- seasons
a numeric vector of years that will be used to filter the dataframe's
seasoncolumn. IfTRUE(default), does not filter.- nflverse
TRUE to add nflverse_data classing and attributes.
Examples
# \donttest{
try({ # prevents cran errors
urls <- c("https://github.com/nflverse/nflverse-data/releases/download/rosters/roster_2020.csv",
"https://github.com/nflverse/nflverse-data/releases/download/rosters/roster_2021.csv")
load_from_url(urls, nflverse = TRUE, nflverse_type = "rosters for 2020 & 2021")
})
#> ── nflverse rosters for 2020 & 2021 ────────────────────────────────────────────
#> ℹ Data updated: 2025-06-29 20:10:56 UTC
#> # A tibble: 6,029 × 36
#> season team position depth_chart_position jersey_number status full_name
#> <int> <chr> <chr> <chr> <int> <chr> <chr>
#> 1 2020 IND K K 4 UFA Adam Vinatie…
#> 2 2020 TB QB QB 12 ACT Tom Brady
#> 3 2020 NO QB QB 9 ACT Drew Brees
#> 4 2020 HOU QB QB 3 INA Josh McCown
#> 5 2020 LV TE TE 82 ACT Jason Witten
#> 6 2020 KC LB OLB 94 UFA Terrell Suggs
#> 7 2020 DET LS LS 48 ACT Don Muhlbach
#> 8 2020 PHI OL T 71 RES Jason Peters
#> 9 2020 ATL QB QB 8 ACT Matt Schaub
#> 10 2020 ARI P P 4 ACT Andy Lee
#> # ℹ 6,019 more rows
#> # ℹ 29 more variables: first_name <chr>, last_name <chr>, birth_date <IDate>,
#> # height <int>, weight <int>, college <chr>, gsis_id <chr>, espn_id <int>,
#> # sportradar_id <chr>, yahoo_id <int>, rotowire_id <int>, pff_id <int>,
#> # pfr_id <chr>, fantasy_data_id <int>, sleeper_id <int>, years_exp <int>,
#> # headshot_url <chr>, ngs_position <chr>, week <int>, game_type <chr>,
#> # status_description_abbr <chr>, football_name <chr>, esb_id <chr>, …
# }