constid: Get constituency identifier

In chrishanretty/pano: Converts between codes for UK parliamentary constituencies

Description

This function converts between four different sets of constituency identifiers.

Usage

constid(sourcevar, origin, destination, warn = TRUE)

Arguments

sourcevar	Vector which contains the codes to be converted
origin	Coding scheme to convert from
destination	Coding scheme to convert to
warn	Flags IDs which return zero or multiple matches

Note

Supports the following coding schemes: Press Association reference number ('pa_id'), Hansard ID ('hansard_id'), ParlParseID ('parlparse_id'), Office of National Statistics ID ('ons_id'). Will try and handle constituency names ('name').

See Also

election.pressassociation.com/Constituencies/general.php, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ONS_coding_system, https://github.com/mysociety/parlparse

Examples

codes.of.origin <- pano::pano_data$pa_id # Vector of values to be converted
constid(codes.of.origin, "pa_id", "ons_id")

chrishanretty/pano documentation built on May 13, 2019, 6:54 p.m.