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emuR vs ggfootball
A side-by-side editorial comparison of emuR and ggfootball — release velocity, themes, recent moves, and the top alternatives to consider.
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emuR vs ggfootball: at a glance
What is emuR?
The R half of the EMU speech database system, fixing what was quietly broken.
emuR is the R interface to the EMU Speech Database Management System — loading annotated speech corpora, running hierarchical queries over annotation levels, extracting signal track data, and serving corpora to the EMU-webApp for browser-based annotation. It is at 2.6.0 on a slow cadence of roughly one release a year. Recent work has centred on the CRUD operations for annotation items and on widening what serve() can hand the web application.
What is ggfootball?
A football-viz package just swapped scraping for an API and broke its own output to do it.
ggfootball is a small R package for plotting expected-goals and shot data, sourced from Understat. Four releases are visible. The 0.2.x line was argument tidying and dependency pruning; 0.3.0 replaced the data-acquisition layer wholesale, moving get_match_shots() from HTML parsing onto Understat's AJAX endpoints and changing the returned column names in the process.
emuR vs ggfootball: editorial side-by-side
emuR
0.0INFRA · APIS
The R half of the EMU speech database system, fixing what was quietly broken.
◆ Current state
emuR is the R interface to the EMU Speech Database Management System — loading annotated speech corpora, running hierarchical queries over annotation levels, extracting signal track data, and serving corpora to the EMU-webApp for browser-based annotation. It is at 2.6.0 on a slow cadence of roughly one release a year. Recent work has centred on the CRUD operations for annotation items and on widening what serve() can hand the web application.
◆ Where it's heading
The releases read as a package being brought up to the standard its own API implied. delete_itemsInLevel() shipped in 2.1.1 as a first version, was described in 2.5.0 as heavily flawed and now usable, and the create/update/delete family is still called ongoing work. Alongside that, the query engine was rewritten onto CTEs and the signal-processing layer is being opened past the bundled wrassp, starting with Matlab. Speed work recurs — SQLite transactions, prepared statements, on-the-fly caching — consistent with corpora outgrowing the original design.
◆ Prediction
Two threads are explicitly unfinished: the CRUD documentation and behaviour, described as ongoing, and the add_signalVia family, described as a draft starting with Matlab. Expect the next release to advance one of them rather than open new ground.
ggfootball
0.0INFRA · APIS
A football-viz package just swapped scraping for an API and broke its own output to do it.
◆ Current state
ggfootball is a small R package for plotting expected-goals and shot data, sourced from Understat. Four releases are visible. The 0.2.x line was argument tidying and dependency pruning; 0.3.0 replaced the data-acquisition layer wholesale, moving get_match_shots() from HTML parsing onto Understat's AJAX endpoints and changing the returned column names in the process.
◆ Where it's heading
The direction is away from scraped HTML and toward a thinner, more defensible package: four dependencies dropped in 0.3.0 on top of qdapRegex in 0.2.1, input validation added, error messages rewritten. Both breaking changes so far were accepted rather than deferred, which reads as a maintainer treating pre-1.0 as the window to get the shape right. The package is willing to break callers for structural reasons, not cosmetic ones.
◆ Prediction
With the scraper rebuilt and the dependency surface trimmed, the next releases are likely to stabilise the new column names and extend the plotting side, which has seen nothing since 0.2.0. A 1.0 would be the signal that the data structure is now considered fixed.
Alternatives to emuR and ggfootball
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Recent activity from emuR and ggfootball
Latest ship moves from both products, interleaved chronologically. ⚡ = editorial spark.
- 6mo agoggfootballggfootball 0.3.0 ⚡
- 6mo agoggfootballggfootball 0.2.2
- 8mo agoemuRemuR 2.6.0
- 1y agoemuRemuR 2.5.1
- 1y agoemuRemuR 2.5.0
- 1y agoggfootballggfootball 0.2.1
- 1y agoggfootballggfootball 0.2.0
- 3y agoemuRemuR 2.4.0
- 5y agoemuRemuR 2.3.0
- 5y agoemuRemuR 2.2.0
Frequently asked questions
What is the difference between emuR and ggfootball?
Both compete on the same themes — r-package — within Infra & APIs. emuR and ggfootball are shipping at a similar cadence (velocity 0.0 vs 0.0, both within Sparkpulse's "active" band). See the at-a-glance table above for a side-by-side breakdown of velocity, recent sparks, and editorial themes.
Is emuR better than ggfootball?
Sparkpulse doesn't pick a winner — we score release velocity, not feature parity. emuR and ggfootball are shipping at a similar cadence (velocity 0.0 vs 0.0, both within Sparkpulse's "active" band). For your specific use case, the alternatives sections above list other Infra & APIs products to evaluate alongside.
What are the best alternatives to emuR?
Top emuR alternatives in Infra & APIs are ranked by recent ship velocity. Browse the "emuR alternatives" section above for the current picks, or visit /alternatives/emur for the full list with editorial commentary on each.
What are the best alternatives to ggfootball?
Top ggfootball alternatives in Infra & APIs are ranked by recent ship velocity. Browse the "ggfootball alternatives" section above for the current picks, or visit /alternatives/ggfootball for the full list with editorial commentary on each.