NEWS

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survivoR 2.3.12 (2026-05-26)

• Adding complete AU12 data
• Adding complete US50 data
• Adding new data set advantage_timeline, a long format version of advantage_movement
• Updated castaway scores. Table now only includes fields
  • Version, season, castaway, ids
  • r_score_* (standardised residual score)
  • p_score_* (probabilistic score on interval [0,1])
  • score_* (which make be a linear combination of the above)

survivoR 2.3.10 (2026-02-05)

• fx for dplyr 'id' update

survivoR 2.3.9 (2026-01-11)

• Adding complete US49 data

survivoR 2.3.8 (2025-10-10)

• Updating functions before stringr release
• A few data corrections

survivoR 2.3.7 (2025-09-09)

• Adding complete AU11 data

survivoR 2.3.6 (2025-06-13)

• Adding complete US48 data
• Huge update to castaway_scores
• New boot_order data set
• Update to castaways such that it no longer includes people booted more than once
• season_name has been deprecated from all tables other than season_summary
• Season 50 cast added

survivoR 2.3.5 (2025-01-08)

• 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, 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.

survivoR 2.3.4 (2024-06-29)

• Adding a new key sog_id (stage of game ID) to boot_mapping, challenge_results, and vote_history. This makes it easier to join those tables and reference a particular stage of the game. The stage of the game is determined by a change in players/tribe setup e.g. whenever someone is voted out, medically evacuated, switches tribes, or simply starting a new episode the sog_id increase by 1. This is now available but still being developed and running a bunch of tests, so please let me know if there are inconsistencies.
• n_boots is now on boot_mapping.
• Minor updates to data across all data sets

survivoR 2.3.3 (2024-05-29)

• Adding complete seasons
  • US46
• New data set added
  • episode_summary - the summary of the episode from Wikipedia
  • challenge_summary - a summarised version of challenge_results for easy analysis
• New fields added
  • team on challenge_results - identifying the team which the castaways were on during the challenge

survivoR 2.3.2 (2024-03-28)

• Adding complete seasons
  • AU09

survivoR 2.3.1 (2024-02-15)

• Expanded challenge_descriptions
• Minor fixes

survivoR 2.3.0 (2024-01-09)

• Adding complete seasons
  • US45
  • UK03
• New data set auction_details
• New features on survivor_auction
• Refreshed challenge_description. Includes:
  • Name
  • Recurring name
  • Description
  • Reward description
  • Challenge characteristics
  • Refreshed challenge_id
• Refreshed challenge_results. Includes:
  • New challenge_id to link with challenge_description
  • New challenge_types e.g. Team / Individual when there are multiple winning conditions
  • New feature result_notes contain info on result winning conditions
• episode_label on episodes e.g. finale, reunion, etc
• Logicals on castaways to filter for
  • finalists
  • winner
  • jury

survivoR 2.1.0 (2023-06-20)

• Version increment
• Adding complete US44, UK01 and NZ02 data
• New confessional timing shiny app.
  • Run with launch_confessional_app()

survivoR 2.0.8 (2023-04-02)

• Adding complete AU08 data
• New features
  • final_n on boot_mapping
  • n_cast on season_summary
  • index_count and index_time on confessionals
• New challenge_id on challenge_results

survivoR 2.0.7 (2023-01-16)

• New feature vote_event_outcome on vote_history
• Adding AU08 cast data

survivoR 2.0.4 (2022-12-17)

• Added complete US43 data
• Added sit_out to challenge results

survivoR 2.0.1 (2022-09-25)

New helper functions:

• show_palette for viewing the season palette generated from the logo
• get_castaway_image returns the URL of the castaway thumbnail for visualisation

Data:

• Updated US43 data
• Updated vote history data

survivoR 2.0 (2022-09-21)

Big update!

survivoR now includes:

• Non-US versions
  • Survivor Australia seasons 1-7
  • Survivor South Africa seasons 1-9
  • Survivor NZ season 1

New datasets:

• Completely refactored challenge_results dataset
  • Old dataset available with challenge_results_dep however it is encourage to use the new data set
• survivor_auction dataset
• screen_time dataset
  • Contains the estimate total seconds of screen time
  • Estimate from ML image detection model

Other updates:

• short_name on castaway_details is now castaway as per the other datasets
• tribe now exists on vote_history
• boot_mapping includes game_status to identify if they are in the game, on Redemption, etc
• Season 43 cast

Removed fields:

• personality_type from castaways

Notes:

• advantage_movement and advantage_details not complete for all Non-US versions

survivoR 1.0.1 (2022-05-31)

• Complete Season 42 data
• Updates to advantage datasets
• Updates to ggplot scales

survivoR 1.0 (2022-05-13)

• Season 42 episode 1 to 11 added
• 3 new data sets
  • advantage_movement
  • advantage_details
  • boot_mapping
• Updates to challenge_results
• New fields on vote_history
  • tribe
  • vote_event
  • split_vote
  • tie
• New fields on viewers
  • imdb_rating
• version and version_season now on all data sets in prep for non-US seasons
• Removed fields from castaways
  • swapped_tribe
  • swapped_tribe_2
  • merged_tribe
  • total_vote_received
  • immunity_idols_won

survivoR 0.9.12 (2022-02-12)

• Season 42 cast now added
• POC flag on castaway_details
• Updated Castaway IDs. Now in the format of USxxxx in preparation for non-US seasons. Original IDs can be recreated by extracting the digits

survivoR 0.9.9 (2022-01-08)

• New challenge data sets
  • challenge_results
  • challenge_description
• New castaways data set
  • castaway_details
  • Huge thank you to Carly Levitz for her contributions collating the gender and race data, and refinements across all data sets
• Season 41 palette and ggplot2 scale function

survivoR 0.9.6 (2021-11-26)

• Data corrections
  • season 41 tribe name
  • incorrect votes
  • duplicate records in castaways and tribe_mapping

survivoR 0.9.5 (2021-11-20)

• Added season 41 episodes 1 to 9
• Added new confessionals data set
• Bug fixes / data cleaning
  • The castaway names are consistent across data sets
  • Tribe mapping is updated filling in missing tribe status and Bobby Jon
  • Incorrect records from vote history removed.

survivoR 0.9.4 (2021-09-21)

• Added castaway ID to all data frames. A numeric key to link castaways across seasons and manage name changes
  • Boston Rob is now Boston Rob
  • Thank you to Holt Skinner for creating the ID and updating some of the castaway names
• Added new challenge_name field on the challenges data frame. Currently only has the Survivor Auction listed. Will be completed with all challenge names in the next release.
• Fixed more special character bugs in castaway names and episode titles

survivoR 0.9.3 (2021-05-11)

• Removed special characters from Kaoh Rong
• Fixed case on 'Black rock' on vote history
• Converted immunity and rewards tables in a challenges table. immunity and rewards will be deprecated at some point
• Added hidden_idols. A dataset on the hidden immunity idols found and played