Description Usage Arguments Value See Also Examples
Downloads the Database of Political Institutions (DPI) data set. It keeps specified variables and creates a standard country ID variable that can be used for merging the data with other data sets.
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url |
character string. The URL for the Polity IV data set you would like to download. Note this is exclusively to download previous, IMF hosted, versions of the data set. If a value is not supplied, then the 2015 IDB hosted version will be downloaded. If a link is supplied it must be to a Stata formated file. |
vars |
character vector containing the variables to keep. If
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OutCountryID |
character string. The type of country ID you would like
to include in the output file along with the country name. See
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standardCountryName |
logical. Whether or not to standardise the country
names variable based on |
na.rm |
logical. Drop observations where |
duplicates |
character specifying how to handle duplicated country-year
observations. Can be set to |
fromLast |
logical indicating if duplication should be considered from
the reverse side. Only relevant if |
a data frame
countrycode
, CountryID
,
WinsetCreator
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