NEWS

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sportsdataverse 0.3.0

• Trimmed the meta-package dependencies to mirror the nflverse model: the package now imports only cli, crayon, magrittr, rlang, and rstudioapi alongside the core SportsDataverse packages. sportsdataverse_deps() and sportsdataverse_update() were rewritten in base R, dropping the dplyr, purrr, and tibble imports.
• sportsdataverse_update() gained a devel argument that points at the SportsDataverse r-universe (https://sportsdataverse.r-universe.dev) for prebuilt development binaries, and now reports via cli.
• Bumped the minimum R version to 4.1.0 and added Config/testthat/edition: 3.
• Updated the core package roster to reflect the current CRAN-published SportsDataverse R packages.
• Added cfbseedR (college football season and playoff-seeding simulation) and mlbplotR (MLB logos, headshots, and plot themes) to the core roster; library(sportsdataverse) now attaches both.
• Bumped the minimum versions of imported packages to their current CRAN releases: baseballr (>= 2.0.0), cfbfastR (>= 3.0.0), cfbseedR (>= 0.2.0), fastRhockey (>= 1.0.0), hoopR (>= 3.1.0), mlbplotR (>= 1.2.0), oddsapiR (>= 1.0.1), sportyR (>= 2.2.3), and wehoop (>= 3.0.0).
• get_core_functions() now returns the package's single roster vector instead of a separately maintained copy.
• Fixed sportsdataverse_deps() leaving out the member packages themselves (it listed only their dependencies), so sportsdataverse_update() never flagged an out-of-date member and the "Core packages" section of sportsdataverse_sitrep() was always empty.
• GitHub Actions: workflows moved to actions/checkout@v6 (Node 24 runtime), gained explicit permissions and concurrency groups, and R CMD check now also runs on macOS. The pkgdown build moved off the pinned Ubuntu 22.04 image to ubuntu-latest with Posit Public Package Manager binaries, and its dependency list was trimmed to pkgdown plus the package itself.
• Removed worldfootballR from the SportsDataverse roster (its upstream repository has been archived).
• Dropped the already-commented archived packages (chessR, hockeyR, toRvik) from the README package roster.
• Switched the README installation instructions from pacman to pak.
• Pointed URL/BugReports at the sportsdataverse GitHub organization and added the pkgdown site (https://r.sportsdataverse.org).

sportsdataverse 0.1.0

• Added a NEWS.md file to track changes to the package.