In jacobkap/boxoffice: Downloads Box Office Information for Given Dates

Overview

The goal of boxoffice is to scrape movie data to get information about daily box office results of movies and top grossing movies. It scrapes the webpages of https://www.the-numbers.com/ for this information.

Installation

To install this package, use the code
install.packages("boxoffice")


# The development version is available on Github.
# install.packages("devtools")
devtools::install_github("jacobkap/boxoffice")

Usage

The boxoffice() function gets daily boxoffice information. In essence, it shows how well each movie performed on that day.

The data it returns are the following:

1. Movie name
2. The studio that produced that movie
3. The daily gross
4. Daily percent change in gross
5. Number of theaters it is playing in
6. Average gross per theater (result of 4 / result of 5)
7. Gross-to-date
8. How many days the movie has been in theaters
9. The date of the data

movies <- boxoffice::boxoffice(date = as.Date("2015-10-31"))
head(movies)

The top_grossing() function gets the

1. Movie name
2. Year released
3. Total domestic (American market) sales
4. Total international sales
5. Total sales (domestic + international)

movies <- boxoffice::top_grossing()
head(movies)

jacobkap/boxoffice documentation built on July 27, 2020, 4:55 a.m.