cps_read: Read in CPS data
In cpsvote: A Toolbox for Using the CPS’s Voting and Registration Supplement

Description Usage Arguments Value Examples

Load multiple years of data from the Current Population Survey. This function will also download the data for you, if it is not present in the given dir.

cps_read(
  years = seq(1994, 2018, 2),
  dir = "cps_data",
  cols = cpsvote::cps_cols,
  names_col = "new_name",
  join_dfs = TRUE
)

`years`	Which years to read in. Thie function will read data from files in `dir` whose names contain these 4-digit years.
`dir`	The folder where the CPS data files live. These files should follow a naming scheme that contains the 4-digit year of the results in question, and have a ".zip" or ".gz" extension.
`cols`	Which columns to read. This must be a data frame, with required columns `start_pos`,`end_pos`, and `year`. The default value is `cps_cols`, which reads from the list `cpsvote::cps_cols`. See `vignette("add-variables")` for details about how to specify a different set of `cols`.
`names_col`	The column in `cols` that contains column names for the specified columns. If none exists, use `names_col = NULL`
`join_dfs`	Whether to combine all of the years into a single data frame, or leave them as a list of data frames. Defaults to `TRUE` with a warning.