Loaders for season-level NHL datasets published as GitHub releases on
sportsdataverse/sportsdataverse-data. Each helper is a thin wrapper
around .nhl_release_loader() which validates the requested seasons,
builds the per-asset URLs from a (release_tag, file_prefix) pair,
downloads in parallel (with optional progressr progress + optional
DBI::DBIConnection insertion), and tags the result with the
fastRhockey_data S3 class. Adding a new dataset is one new row in
the catalog table below.
Details
Loader catalog
| Function | Release tag | File prefix |
load_nhl_pbp() | nhl_pbp_full | play_by_play |
load_nhl_pbp_lite() | nhl_pbp_lite | play_by_play_lite |
load_nhl_player_box() | nhl_player_boxscores | player_box |
load_nhl_skater_box() | nhl_skater_boxscores | skater_box |
load_nhl_goalie_box() | nhl_goalie_boxscores | goalie_box |
load_nhl_team_box() | nhl_team_boxscores | team_box |
load_nhl_schedule() | nhl_schedules | nhl_schedule |
load_nhl_rosters() | nhl_rosters | rosters |
load_nhl_game_rosters() | nhl_game_rosters | game_rosters |
load_nhl_game_info() | nhl_game_info | game_info |
load_nhl_scoring() | nhl_scoring | scoring |
load_nhl_penalties() | nhl_penalties | penalties |
load_nhl_three_stars() | nhl_three_stars | three_stars |
load_nhl_scratches() | nhl_scratches | scratches |
load_nhl_linescore() | nhl_linescore | linescore |
load_nhl_shifts() | nhl_shifts | shifts |
load_nhl_officials() | nhl_officials | officials |
load_nhl_shots_by_period() | nhl_shots_by_period | shots_by_period |
load_nhl_shootout() | nhl_shootout | shootout_summary |
DB helpers
| Function | Purpose |
update_nhl_db() | Idempotent loader → DB writer (delta only) |
build_nhl_db() | Bulk-build a DB from release files |
get_missing_nhl_games() | Show games missing from a DB target |