{"id":13642796,"url":"https://github.com/gadenbuie/starwarsdb","last_synced_at":"2026-03-15T09:39:59.662Z","repository":{"id":48414259,"uuid":"302142039","full_name":"gadenbuie/starwarsdb","owner":"gadenbuie","description":"Relational Data from the Star Wars API for Learning and Teaching","archived":false,"fork":false,"pushed_at":"2022-12-08T16:08:54.000Z","size":598,"stargazers_count":37,"open_issues_count":0,"forks_count":1,"subscribers_count":3,"default_branch":"main","last_synced_at":"2024-07-04T02:34:41.825Z","etag":null,"topics":["dplyr","duckdb-database","learning","relational-database","sql","star-wars-data","teaching"],"latest_commit_sha":null,"homepage":"https://pkg.garrickadenbuie.com/starwarsdb","language":"R","has_issues":true,"has_wiki":null,"has_pages":null,"mirror_url":null,"source_name":null,"license":"other","status":null,"scm":"git","pull_requests_enabled":true,"icon_url":"https://github.com/gadenbuie.png","metadata":{"files":{"readme":"README.Rmd","changelog":null,"contributing":null,"funding":null,"license":"LICENSE","code_of_conduct":null,"threat_model":null,"audit":null,"citation":null,"codeowners":null,"security":null,"support":null}},"created_at":"2020-10-07T19:38:05.000Z","updated_at":"2024-07-04T02:34:41.826Z","dependencies_parsed_at":"2023-01-25T14:31:26.853Z","dependency_job_id":null,"html_url":"https://github.com/gadenbuie/starwarsdb","commit_stats":null,"previous_names":[],"tags_count":3,"template":false,"template_full_name":null,"repository_url":"https://repos.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/hosts/GitHub/repositories/gadenbuie%2Fstarwarsdb","tags_url":"https://repos.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/hosts/GitHub/repositories/gadenbuie%2Fstarwarsdb/tags","releases_url":"https://repos.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/hosts/GitHub/repositories/gadenbuie%2Fstarwarsdb/releases","manifests_url":"https://repos.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/hosts/GitHub/repositories/gadenbuie%2Fstarwarsdb/manifests","owner_url":"https://repos.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/hosts/GitHub/owners/gadenbuie","download_url":"https://codeload.github.com/gadenbuie/starwarsdb/tar.gz/refs/heads/main","host":{"name":"GitHub","url":"https://github.com","kind":"github","repositories_count":243869398,"owners_count":20361006,"icon_url":"https://github.com/github.png","version":null,"created_at":"2022-05-30T11:31:42.601Z","updated_at":"2022-07-04T15:15:14.044Z","host_url":"https://repos.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/hosts/GitHub","repositories_url":"https://repos.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/hosts/GitHub/repositories","repository_names_url":"https://repos.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/hosts/GitHub/repository_names","owners_url":"https://repos.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/hosts/GitHub/owners"}},"keywords":["dplyr","duckdb-database","learning","relational-database","sql","star-wars-data","teaching"],"created_at":"2024-08-02T01:01:36.384Z","updated_at":"2026-03-15T09:39:54.614Z","avatar_url":"https://github.com/gadenbuie.png","language":"R","funding_links":[],"categories":["R"],"sub_categories":[],"readme":"---\noutput: github_document\n---\n\n\u003c!-- README.md is generated from README.Rmd. Please edit that file --\u003e\n\n```{r, include = FALSE}\nknitr::opts_chunk$set(\n  collapse = TRUE,\n  comment = \"#\u003e\",\n  fig.path = \"man/figures/README-\",\n  out.width = \"100%\"\n)\n```\n\n[swapi]: https://swapi.dev\n[rwars]: https://github.com/Ironholds/rwars\n[dbplyr]: https://dbplyr.tidyverse.org/\n[dm]: https://krlmlr.github.io/dm/\n[duckdb]: https://duckdb.org\n\n# starwarsdb\n\n\u003c!-- badges: start --\u003e\n[![CRAN status](https://www.r-pkg.org/badges/version/starwarsdb)](https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=starwarsdb)\n[![R-CMD-check](https://github.com/gadenbuie/starwarsdb/actions/workflows/R-CMD-check.yaml/badge.svg)](https://github.com/gadenbuie/starwarsdb/actions/workflows/R-CMD-check.yaml)\n\u003c!-- badges: end --\u003e\n\n**starwarsdb** provides data from the [Star Wars API][swapi] as a set of relational tables, or as an in-package [DuckDB] database.\n\n![](man/figures/README-starwars-data-model-1.svg)\n\n**Formats:** \n[Metadata](#star-wars-data),\n[Local Tables](#local-tables),\n[Remote Tables](#remote-tables),\n[Data Model (dm)](#dm-tables),\n[API (rwars)](#api)\n\n## Installation\n\nYou can install **starwarsdb** from CRAN:\n\n``` r\ninstall.packages(\"starwarsdb\")\n```\n\nOr you can install the development version of **starwarsdb** from GitHub with [remotes](https://remotes.r-lib.org):\n\n``` r\n# install.packages(\"remotes\")\n\nremotes::install_github(\"gadenbuie/starwarsdb\")\n\n# For remotes \u003c= 2.1.0\nremotes::install_github(\"gadenbuie/starwarsdb@main\")\n```\n\n## Star Wars Data\n\n```{r echo=FALSE}\nlibrary(tibble)\n```\n\nAll of the tables are available when you load **starwarsdb**\n\n```{r message=FALSE, warning=FALSE}\nlibrary(dplyr)\nlibrary(starwarsdb)\n```\n\nor via\n\n```{r eval=FALSE}\ndata(package = \"starwarsdb\")\n```\n\nThe `schema` table includes information about the tables that were sourced from [SWAPI].\n\n```{r}\nschema\n```\n\n```{r}\nschema %\u003e% \n  filter(endpoint == \"films\") %\u003e% \n  pull(properties)\n```\n\n## Local Tables\n\nAsk questions, like _who flew an X-Wing?_\n\n```{r}\nx_wing_pilots \u003c- pilots %\u003e% filter(vehicle == \"X-wing\")\nx_wing_pilots\n\npeople %\u003e% semi_join(x_wing_pilots, by = c(name = \"pilot\"))\n```\n\n## Remote Tables\n\n**starwarsdb** also includes the entire data set as a DuckDB database,\nappropriate for teaching and practicing remote database access with [dbplyr].\n\n```{r}\ncon \u003c- starwars_connect()\n\npeople_rmt \u003c- tbl(con, \"people\")\npilots_rmt \u003c- tbl(con, \"pilots\")\npilots_rmt\n\nx_wing_pilots \u003c- pilots_rmt %\u003e% filter(vehicle == \"X-wing\")\nx_wing_pilots\n\npeople_rmt %\u003e% semi_join(x_wing_pilots, by = c(name = \"pilot\"))\n```\n\n## DM Tables\n\nFinally, **starwarsdb** provides a function that returns a pre-configured [dm] object.\nThe `dm` package wraps local data frames into a complete relational data model.\n\n```{r dm-tables}\nlibrary(dm, warn.conflicts = FALSE)\n\nsw_dm \u003c- starwars_dm()\nsw_dm\n\nsw_dm %\u003e%\n  dm_select_tbl(pilots, people) %\u003e%\n  dm_filter(pilots = vehicle == \"X-wing\") %\u003e%\n  dm_zoom_to(\"people\") %\u003e%\n  semi_join(pilots)\n```\n\n```{r starwars-data-model, eval = FALSE, echo = TRUE}\ndm_draw(sw_dm)\n```\n\n![](man/figures/README-starwars-data-model-1.svg)\n\n```{r starwars-data-model-write, echo = FALSE, eval = TRUE}\nsw_dm %\u003e%\n  dm_draw(graph_attrs = 'bgcolor=\"transparent\"', node_attrs = 'fontname=\"Helvetica\"') %\u003e%\n  DiagrammeRsvg::export_svg() %\u003e%\n  writeLines(\"man/figures/README-starwars-data-model-1.svg\")\n```\n\n## API\n\nFor API access from R, check out the [rwars] package by Oliver Keyes.\nBig thanks to `rwars` for making it easy to access the Star Wars API!\n","project_url":"https://awesome.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/projects/github.com%2Fgadenbuie%2Fstarwarsdb","html_url":"https://awesome.ecosyste.ms/projects/github.com%2Fgadenbuie%2Fstarwarsdb","lists_url":"https://awesome.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/projects/github.com%2Fgadenbuie%2Fstarwarsdb/lists"}