boxoffice
From boxoffice v0.1.0
by Jacob Kaplan
Download Information on Box Office Results for Movies
Download Information on Box Office Results for Movies
Usage
boxoffice(start_date, end_date = NULL, number_of_results = NULL, source = "mojo", verbose = FALSE)Arguments
- start_date
- Enter the first date in the range, or the specific date you want, or the list of dates you want. Dates must be in year/month/date format.
- end_date
- If you use a date range, this will be your end date in the range (inclusive). Dates must be in year/month/date format
- number_of_results
- How many results for each day (e.g. an input of 10 will return the top 10 movies that day)
- source
- Whether you want to get data from boxofficemojo.com or the-numbers.com.
- verbose
- Provides progress updates (which dates have been scraped and the percent total done)
Value
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Data frame returning info on the name of the movie, its daily gross,
gross-to-date, and gross-per-theater for each date inputted.
Examples
# This will give you all movies from October 10th
# 2012 from the-numbers.com
boxoffice("12-10-10", source = "numbers")
# This will do the same as above but from
# boxofficemojo.com. Each site has
# slightly differing results. Note that
# boxofficemojo is default
# and does not need to be manually inputted
## Not run: boxoffice("12-10-10")
# Date range from October 10th - October 11th 2012
## Not run: boxoffice("12-10-10", "12-10-11")
# Same as above, only grab top 10 movies
## Not run: boxoffice("12-10-10", "12-10-11", number_of_results = 10)
# Same as above, with the-numbers.com as source
## Not run: boxoffice("12-10-10", "12-10-11",
# number_of_results = 10, source = "numbers")## End(Not run)
# Multiple dates
## Not run: boxoffice(c("12-10-10", "13-4-15"))
# Multiple dates with the-numbers as source
## Not run: boxoffice(c("12-10-10", "13-4-15"), source = "numbers")
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