Data from the Doctor Who Series

Explore data related to the Doctor Who TV series.

datardis

The goal of datardis is to provide datasets from the Doctor Who and Torchwood TV shows.

Six datasets are available, three for each show:

🎞️ Dr Who

• drwho_episodes

• drwho_directors

• drwho_writers

🎞️ Torchwood

• torchwood_episodes

• torchwood_directors

• torchwood_writers

Installation

You can download and install the package from CRAN:

install.packages("datardis")

You can install the development version from GitHub with:

devtools::install_github("KittJonathan/datardis")

Examples

## Load packages
library(datardis)
library(tidyverse)

## Find maximum number of UK viewers for Doctor Who (in millions)
max(drwho_episodes$uk_viewers, na.rm = TRUE)
#> [1] "9.87"

## Find who wrote the most episodes for Doctor Who
drwho_writers |>
     count(writer, sort = TRUE) |>
     head(5)
#> # A tibble: 5 × 2
#>   writer               n
#>   <chr>            <int>
#> 1 Steven Moffat       45
#> 2 Russell T Davies    31
#> 3 Chris Chibnall      29
#> 4 Mark Gatiss          9
#> 5 Toby Whithouse       7

## Find who directed the most episodes for Doctor Who
drwho_directors |>
     count(director, sort = TRUE) |>
     head(5)
#> # A tibble: 5 × 2
#>   director               n
#>   <chr>              <int>
#> 1 Graeme Harper         12
#> 2 Euros Lyn             11
#> 3 Douglas Mackinnon      8
#> 4 Jamie Magnus Stone     8
#> 5 James Strong           7

News: datardis v.0.0.4

• added last Dr Who episodes (2022 specials)

• replaced %>% pipe with |> pipe in examples