This is an R package for collecting and formatting response data from several surveys of economists conducted by the Booth School of Business at the University of Chicago and the Centre for Macroeconomics.
I will update the dataset semesterly (but feel free to poke me if i seem to have forgotten!). The functions used to scrape the websites are not exported as a way of discouraging unnecessary scraping.
Install the package as follows:
if (!require(devtools)) install.packages("devtools")
devtools::install_github("corybrunson/econpanel", build_vignettes = TRUE)
The package contains the following datasets:
igm
contains question statements and responses from the Initiative on Global Markets Economic Experts Panel.eigm
contains the corresponding data from the IGM European panel.cfm
contains question statements and responses from the Centre for Macroeconomics.planetmoney
contains question statements and response tallies (not individual responses) from a 2016 story by Planet Money on economists' opinions about the U.S. presidential candidates' economic proposals. The panelists were drawn from the IGM pool.Load the datasets as follows:
data(planetmoney, package = "econpanel")
The vignette "exploration" illustrates some questions and answers pursuable through these datasets. Access it as follows:
vignette(topic = "exploration", package = "econpanel")
I borrowed some insight from code at Chris Said's economist_poll
repo. Also invaluable have been Hadley Wickam's rvest
package and the SelectorGadget Chrome extension.
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