R/polls_us_election_2016.R

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#' Fivethirtyeight 2016 Poll Data 
#' 
#' Poll results from US 2016 presidential elections aggregated from HuffPost Pollster, RealClearPolitics, polling firms, and news reports. 
#' The dataset also includes election results (popular vote) and electoral college votes in \code{results_us_election_2016}.
#'
#'
#' \itemize{
#' \item state. State in which poll was taken. `U.S` is for national polls.
#' \item startdate. Poll's start date.
#' \item enddate. Poll's end date.
#' \item pollster. Pollster conducting the poll.
#' \item grade. Grade assigned by fivethirtyeight to pollster.
#' \item samplesize. Sample size. 
#' \item population. Type of population being polled.
#' \item rawpoll_clinton. Percentage for Hillary Clinton.
#' \item rawpoll_trump. Percentage for Donald Trump
#' \item rawpoll_johnson. Percentage for Gary Johnson
#' \item rawpoll_mcmullin. Percentage for Evan McMullin.
#' \item adjpoll_clinton. Fivethirtyeight adjusted percentage for Hillary Clinton.
#' \item ajdpoll_trump. Fivethirtyeight adjusted percentage for Donald Trump
#' \item adjpoll_johnson. Fivethirtyeight adjusted percentage for Gary Johnson
#' \item adjpoll_mcmullin. Fivethirtyeight adjusted percentage for Evan McMullin.
#' }
#
#' @docType data
#'
#' @usage polls_us_election_2016
#'
#' @format An object of class \code{"data.frame"}. 
#'
#' @keywords datasets
#'
#'
#' @source 
#' 
#' The original csv file used to create \code{polls_us_election_2016} is here: \url{https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/general-model/president_general_polls_2016.csv} 
#' 
#' The data for \code{results_us_election_2016} is from Ballotpedia and can be found here:
#' \url{https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1zxyOQDjNOJS_UkzerorUCf2OAdcMcIQEwRciKuYBIZ4/pubhtml?widget=true&headers=false#gid=658726802/}
#'
#'
#' @aliases results_us_election_2016
#' 
#'
#' @examples
#' head(polls_us_election_2016)
"polls_us_election_2016"