legend_fed: Download data on federal election coalitions in Brazil

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

Download data on federal election coalitions in Brazil

Description

legend_fed() downloads and aggregates the data on the party denomination (coalitions or parties) from the federal elections in Brazil, disaggregated bi cities. The function returns a data.frame where each observation corresponds to a city.

Usage

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

Arguments

year	Election year. For this function, only the years 1994, 1998, 2002, 2006, 2010, 2014 and 2018 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 recoverns 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). If TRUE, keep the temporary compressed file for future use (recommended)

Details

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

Value

legend_fed() returns a data.frame.

Note

For elections prior to 2002, some information can be incomplete.

Examples

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

## End(Not run)

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