nascaR.data: NASCAR Race Data

A collection of NASCAR race, driver, owner and manufacturer data across the three major NASCAR divisions: NASCAR Cup Series, NXS, and NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series. The curated data begins with the 1949 season and is updated weekly during the racing season. Explore race, season, or career performance for drivers, teams, and manufacturers throughout NASCAR's history. Data was sourced with permission from DriverAverages.com.

Version: 3.0.0
Depends: R (≥ 4.1.0)
Imports: arrow, dplyr, glue, rlang, stringdist, stringr
Suggests: conflicted, curl, ggtext, httr2, jsonlite, knitr, paws.storage, purrr, rmarkdown, roxygen2, rvest, scales, testthat (≥ 3.0.0), tidyverse
Published: 2026-02-14
DOI: 10.32614/CRAN.package.nascaR.data
Author: Kyle Grealis ORCID iD [aut, cre], Nick Triplett [ctb], Gabriel Odom ORCID iD [ctb]
Maintainer: Kyle Grealis <kylegrealis at proton.me>
BugReports: https://github.com/kyleGrealis/nascaR.data/issues
License: GPL (≥ 3)
URL: https://www.kylegrealis.com/nascaR.data/
NeedsCompilation: no
Citation: nascaR.data citation info
Materials: README, NEWS
CRAN checks: nascaR.data results

Documentation:

Reference manual: nascaR.data.html , nascaR.data.pdf
Vignettes: A Race Winning Strategy (source, R code)
Upgrading to v3 (source, R code)

Downloads:

Package source: nascaR.data_3.0.0.tar.gz
Windows binaries: r-devel: nascaR.data_2.2.3.zip, r-release: nascaR.data_2.2.3.zip, r-oldrel: nascaR.data_2.2.3.zip
macOS binaries: r-release (arm64): nascaR.data_2.2.3.tgz, r-oldrel (arm64): nascaR.data_2.2.3.tgz, r-release (x86_64): nascaR.data_2.2.3.tgz, r-oldrel (x86_64): nascaR.data_2.2.3.tgz
Old sources: nascaR.data archive

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