betfaiR

The betfaiR package provides R users full access to the Betfair API, retrieving data and placing bets. A vignette showing how to locate a market, place a bet, replace a bet, and then cancel a bet is available.

The primary function of the package is betfair which requires users to enter their login details, including an API key (see Betfair documentation on how to get an API key). The function returns an environment with various methods for querying and retrieving data from Betfair.

This is not to say that it is the only way to use this package, all the functions that betfair uses are available, but betfair aims to keep the workspace free of unnecessary variables as queries are developed and saved.

The betfair function logs in, and for each of the methods the following functions are called:

step	function	arguments	details	return
1	bf_login	usr, pwd, key	login function with betfair username, password, and key	list with a session token
2	bf_basic_req	filter, method	builds a basic request object	list with class that matches method param
3	bf_request	x, …	fleshes out the request object	json object ready to be included in a POST request
4	bf_post	body	betfair POST, includes the request object returned in step 3, and the session token returned in 1	response object
5	httr::content	response	response object to be parsed into a list	list with data
6	bf_check	response, method	check the response is valid, log errors if not, apply class method to list ahead of step 7	list
7	bf_parse	response	parses the response object	list of dataframes or dataframe