newgroupby: Function that creates a data frame with political groups...
In bclroger/euparliament: Analysis of the EU Parliament elections of 2014 and 2019

Description Usage Arguments Value Examples

This function creates new dataframe with political groups as a result of aggregating selected parties.

1	newgroupby(df, groups, keep)

`df`	The `dataframe` with the data of the political parties.
`groups`	List with the desired groups with the `dataframe` columns for performing the groupings.
`keep`	What columns of the inputted `dataframe` will be kept. By default, it will be "Country" and "Year".

Returns a dataframe containing the rows from the inputted dataframe listed in keep and the columns in the list inputted under groups.

Country <- c("Austria", "Belgium", "Bulgaria")
EPP <- c(1,2,3)
SD <- c(1,2,3)
Other <- c(1,1,1)
IN <- c(1,1,1)
df.data <- data.frame(Country, EPP, SD, Other, IN)
groups <- groups <- list(
  "traditional" = c("EPP", "SD"),
  "non_attached" = c("IN", "Other"))

newgroupby(df.data, groups, "Country")