voter_profile: Download data on the voters' profile

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

Download data on the voters' profile

Description

voter_profile() downloads and cleans data on the voters' profile aggregated by state, city and electoral zone. The function returns a data.frame where each observation corresponds to a voter profile type.

Usage

voter_profile(year, encoding = "windows-1252", temp = TRUE, readme_pdf = FALSE)

Arguments

year	Election year (integer). For this function, the following years are available: 1998, 2000, 2002, 2004, 2006, 2008, 2010, 2012, 2014, 2016, 2018, 2020 and 2022.
encoding	Data original encoding (defaults to 'windows-1252'). This can be changed to avoid errors when ascii = TRUE. #'
temp	(logical). If TRUE, keep the temporary compressed file for future use (recommended)
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

voter_profile() returns a data.frame.

Examples

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

## End(Not run)

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