details_mun_zone_local: Download data on the verification of local elections in...

Description Usage Arguments Details Value Note See Also Examples

View source: R/details_mun_zone_local.R

Description

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

Usage

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details_mun_zone_local(
  year,
  uf = "all",
  ascii = FALSE,
  encoding = "latin1",
  export = FALSE,
  temp = TRUE
)

Arguments

year

Election year. For this function, only the years 1996, 2000, 2004, 2008, 2012, 2016 and 2020 are available.

uf

Federation Unit acronym (character vector).

ascii

(logical). Should the text be transformed from Latin-1 to ASCII format?

encoding

Data original encoding (defaults to 'Latin-1'). This can be changed to avoid errors when ascii = TRUE.

export

(logical). Should the downloaded data be saved in .dta and .sav in the current directory?

temp

(logical). elections_rda

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_local() returns a data.frame with the following variables:

Note

For the elections prior to 2000, some information can be incomplete.

See Also

details_mun_zone_fed for federal elections in Brazil.

Examples

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## Not run: 
df <- details_mun_zone_local(2000)

## End(Not run)

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