legend_local: Download data on local election coalitions in Brazil

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

Download data on local election coalitions in Brazil

Description

legend_local() downloads and aggregates the party denominations (coalitions or parties) from the local elections in Brazil, disaggregated by cities. The function returns a data.frame where each observation corresponds to a city.

Usage

legend_local(year, uf = "all", encoding = "latin1", temp = TRUE)

Arguments

year	Election year. For this function, only the years 2008, 2012 and 2016 are available.
uf	Federation Unit acronym (character vector).
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_local() returns a data.frame.

Examples

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

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