summary.rollcall: summarize a rollcall object

In pscl: Political Science Computational Laboratory

summarize a rollcall object

Description

Provides a summary of the information about votes, legislators, etc in a rollcall object.

Usage

## S3 method for class 'rollcall'
summary(object,
                 dropList=NULL,  
                 verbose=FALSE,debug=FALSE,...)

## S3 method for class 'summary.rollcall'
print(x, digits=1, ...)

Arguments

object	an rollcall object.
dropList	a list or alist, listing voting decisions, legislators and/or votes to be dropped from the summary; see dropRollCall for details.
verbose	logical, if TRUE, compute legislator-specific and vote-specific Yea/Nay/NA summaries
debug	logical, if TRUE, print messages to console during processing of the rollcall object
x	an object of class summary.rollcall
digits	number of decimal places in printed display
...	further arguments passed to or from other methods.

Value

An object of class summary.rollcall with the following elements (depending on the logical flag verbose):

n	number of legislators in the rollcall object, after processing the dropList
m	number of roll call votes in the rollcall object, after processing the dropList
codes	a list that describes how the voting decisions in the rollcall matrix (object$votes) map into “Yea” and “Nay” etc, after processing the dropList; see rollcall for more details
allVotes	a matrix containing a tabular breakdown of all votes in the rollcall matrix (object$votes), after processing the dropList
partyTab	a tabular breakdown of the legislators' party affiliations, after processing the dropList, and only if party affiliations are supplied asobject$legis.data$party; see rollcall for details
lopSided	a tabular summary of the frequency of lop-sided roll call votes in the rollcall object, again, after processing the dropList
legisTab	a tabular summary of each legislators' voting history
partyLoyalty	the proportion of times that each legislator votes the way that a majority of his or her fellow partisans did, provided party affiliations are available
voteTab	a tabular summary of each rollcall's votes
call	the matched call used to invoke summary.rollcall

See Also

rollcall

Examples

set.seed(314159265)
fakeData <- matrix(sample(x=c(0,1),size=1000,replace=TRUE),
                   10,100)
rc <- rollcall(fakeData)
rc

data(sc9497)
rc <- rollcall(sc9497)
summary(rc)

data(s109)
summary(s109)
summary(s109,verbose=TRUE)

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