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Description

Provides access to coded election programmes from the Manifesto Corpus and to the Manifesto Project's Main Dataset and routines to analyse this data. The Manifesto Project https://manifesto-project.wzb.eu collects and analyses election programmes across time and space to measure the political preferences of parties. The Manifesto Corpus contains the collected and annotated election programmes in the Corpus format of the package 'tm' to enable easy use of text processing and text mining functionality. Specific functions for scaling of coded political texts are included.

Details

manifestoR R package

Access and process data and documents of the Manifesto Project

Package:	manifestoR
Type:	Package
License:	GPL (>= 3)
LazyLoad:	yes

Author(s)

Jirka Lewandowski [e-mail]

See Also

Useful links:

• https://manifesto-project.wzb.eu: additional tutorials, documentation, data, and election programmes

• https://github.com/ManifestoProject/manifestoR: manifestoR on GitHub

• Report bugs at https://github.com/ManifestoProject/manifestoR/issues

manifestoR documentation built on Jan. 13, 2021, 9:53 a.m.