get_troopdata: Function to retrieve customized U.S. troop deployment data

In troopdata: Tools for Analyzing Cross-National Military Deployment and Basing Data

Description

get_troopdata() generates a customized data frame containing country-year observations of U.S. military deployments overseas.

Usage

get_troopdata(host = NA, branch = FALSE, startyear, endyear)

Arguments

host	The Correlates of War (COW) numeric country code or ISO3C code for the host country or countries in the series
branch	Logical. Should the function return a single vector containing total troop values or multiple vectors containing total values and values for individual branches? Default is FALSE.
startyear	The first year for the series
endyear	The last year for the series

Value

get_troopdata() returns a data frame containing country-year observations for U.S. troop deployments.

Author(s)

Michael E. Flynn

References

Tim Kane. Global U.S. troop deployment, 1950-2003. Technical Report. Heritage Foundation, Washington, D.C.

Michael A. Allen, Michael E. Flynn, and Carla Martinez Machain. 2021. "Global U.S. military deployment data: 1950-2020." Working Paper.

Examples

## Not run: 
library(tidyverse)
library(troopdata)

example <- get_troopdata(host = NA, branch = TRUE, startyear = 1980, endyear = 2015)

head(example)


## End(Not run)

troopdata documentation built on Feb. 1, 2022, 1:08 a.m.