details_mun_zone: Download data on the verification of federal elections in...

In electionsBR: R Functions to Download and Clean Brazilian Electoral Data

Download data on the verification of federal elections in Brazil

Description

details_mun_zone() downloads and aggregates data on the verification of federal elections in Brazil, disaggregated by town and electoral zone. The function returns a data.frame where each observation corresponds to a town/zone.

Usage

details_mun_zone(
  year,
  uf = "all",
  br_archive = FALSE,
  encoding = "latin1",
  temp = TRUE,
  readme_pdf = FALSE
)

Arguments

year	Election year. For this function, only the years 1994, 1998, 2002, 2006, 2010, 2014, 2018, 202. 2024 are available.
uf	Federation Unit acronym (character vector).
br_archive	In the TSE's data repository, some results can be obtained for the whole country by loading a single within a single file by setting this argument to TRUE (may not work in for some elections and, in other, it recovers only electoral data for presidential elections, absent in other files).
encoding	Data original encoding (defaults to 'Latin-1'). This can be changed to avoid errors when ascii = TRUE.
temp	(logical). temp
readme_pdf	original readme

Details

If export is set to TRUE, the downloaded data is saved as .dta and .sav files in the current directory.

Value

details_mun_zone() returns a data.frame.

Note

For the elections prior to 2002, some information can be incomplete. For the 2014, 2018, 2022 and 2024 elections, more variables are available.

Examples

## Not run: 
df <- details_mun_zone(2002)

## End(Not run)

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