sen90: 90th U.S. Senate Roll Call Vote Matrix
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sen90

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90th U.S. Senate Roll Call Vote Matrix

Description

This dataframe contains a matrix of votes cast by U.S. Senators in the 90th Congress. The data are formatted consistent with the rollcall object format in Simon Jackman's pscl package.

Usage

data(sen90)

Value

The dataframe contains roll call data for all Senators in the 90th Senate. The data is formatted as a rollcall object with the following elements.

`votes`	data frame, containing all data from the old `nom31.dat` file about legislators. For a typical W-NOMINATE object run with an ORD file read using `readKH`, it will contain the following: `state` State name of legislator. `icpsrState` ICPSR state code of legislator. `cd` Congressional District number. `icpsrLegis` ICPSR code of legislator. `party` Party of legislator. `partyCode` ICPSR party code of legislator.
`codes`	list of four vectors. `yea` shows the codes in `votes` that are yea votes, 'nay' shows nay codes, `notInLegis` shows absences, and `missing` shows the missing codes.
`n`	numeric, number of legislators
`m`	numeric, number of roll calls
`legis.data`	data frame, containing the following information on legislators: `state` State name of legislator. `icpsrState` ICPSR state code of legislator. `cd` Congressional District number. `icpsrLegis` ICPSR code of legislator. `party` Party of legislator. `partyCode` ICPSR party code of legislator.
`vote.data`	null, would otherwise be a data frame containing data on the votes.
`desc`	null, would otherwise be a string describing the data set.
`source`	string, describing where data set was read from.

Author(s)

Keith Poole ktpoole@uga.edu

Jeffrey Lewis jblewis@ucla.edu

James Lo lojames@usc.edu

Royce Carroll rcarroll@rice.edu

Source

Voteview team. 2017. 90th Senate Roll Call Vote Data. https://voteview.com/static/data/out/votes/S090_votes.ord.

Examples

    #This data file is the same as reading file using:
    ## Not run: 
    sen90 <- readKH("https://voteview.com/static/data/out/votes/S090_votes.ord")
	
## End(Not run)
    data(sen90)
    summary(sen90)

    #Output file identical to one produced by command below
    ## Not run: 
    sen90oc <- oc(sen90,dims=2,polarity=c(7,2))
	
## End(Not run)
    data(sen90oc)
    summary(sen90oc)
    plot(sen90oc)

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