survivoR

70 seasons. 1319 people. 1 package!

survivoR is a collection of data sets detailing events across 70 seasons of Survivor US, Australia, South Africa, New Zealand and UK. It includes castaway information, vote history, immunity and reward challenge winners, jury votes, advantage details and a lot more.

For analysis and updates you can follow me on Bluesky @danoehm.bsky.social or Threads @_survivordb

Installation

Install from CRAN (v2.3.4) or Git (v2.3.5).

If Git > CRAN I’d suggest install from Git. We are constantly improving the data sets so the github version is likely to be slightly improved.

install.packages("survivoR")

devtools::install_github("doehm/survivoR")

News: survivoR 2.3.5

• Adding complete US47 data
• Adding new castaway_scores dataset
• Adding new add_* functions:
  • add_alive(): Adds a logical flag if the castaway is alive at the start or end of an episode
  • add_bipoc(): Adds a BIPOC to the data frame. If any African American (or Canadian), Asian American, Latin American, or Native American is TRUE then BIPOC is TRUE.
  • add_castaway(): Adds castaway to a data frame. Input data frame must have castaway_id.
  • add_demogs(): Add demographics that includes age, gender, race/ethnicity, and LGBTQIA+ status to a data frame with castaway_id.
  • add_finalist(): Adds a winner flag to the data set.
  • add_full_name(): Adds full name to the data frame. Useful for plotting and making tables.
  • add_gender(): Adds gender to a data frame
  • add_jury(): Adds a jury member flag to the data set.
  • add_lgbt(): Adds the LGBTQIA+ flag to the data frame.
  • add_result(): Adds the result and place to the data frame.
  • add_tribe(): Adds tribe to a data frame for a specified stage of the game e.g. original, swapped, swapped_2, etc.
  • add_tribe_colour(): Add tribe colour to the data frame. Useful for preparing the data for plotting with ggplot2.
  • add_winner(): Adds a winner flag to the data set.
• Adding new filter_* functions:
  • filter_alive(): Filters a given dataset to those that are still alive in the game at the start or end of a user specified episode.
  • filter_final_n(): Filters to the final n players e.g. the final 5.
  • filter_finalist(): Filters a data set to the finalists of a given season.
  • filter_jury(): Filters a data set to the jury members of a given season.
  • filter_new_era(): Filters a data set to all New Era seasons.
  • filter_us(): Filter a data set to a specified set of US season or list of seasons. A shorthand version of filter_vs() for the US seasons.
  • filter_vs(): Filters a data set to a specified version season or list of version seasons.
  • filter_winner(): Filters a data set to the winners of a given season.

The Sanctuary

The Sanctuary is the survivoR package’s companion. It holds interactive tables and charts detailing the castaways, challenges, vote history, confessionals, ratings, and more. Confessional counts from myself, Carly Levitz, Sam, Grace.

Confessional timing

Included in the package is a confessional timing app to record the length of confessionals while watching the episode.

To launch the app, first install the package and run,

library(survivoR)
launch_confessional_app()

To try it out online