I was interested in both FRC and learning the R language, so I created an R package (firstapiR) to download data from the FIRST API server and convert it to R data frames. Perhaps others might find it interesting.
Here is the link to the github repository that contains the package.
There are instructions on how to set up your R environment and download and install the package in the README section of the repository.
Stacy Irwin
Business Operations Mentor
FRC 1318
Issaquah Robotics Society