In hgoers/sRdpData: Strategies of Resistance Data Project

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sRdpData

The goal of sRdpData is to provide you with easy, programmatic access to data on all self-determination groups and organizations, the countries that they are challenging, their start and end years, and their use of violent and non-violent tactics. This package is part of the Strategies of Resistance Data Project.

Installation

From the R console, type:

install.packages("sRdpData")

You can install the development version of sRdpData from GitHub with:

# install.packages("devtools")
devtools::install_github("hgoers/sRdpData")

Access group- and organization-level data for all years between 1960 and 2005

library(sRdpData)

# Access organization-level data
srdp_orgs() # In organization-year dyads, or
srdp_orgs(wide = TRUE) # At the organization-level

# Access group-level data in much the same way
srdp_groups() # In group-year dyads, or
srdp_groups(wide = TRUE) # At the group-level

Get annual data on groups' use of tactics

library(sRdpData)

srdp_tactics()

See how groups and organizations have changed over time

library(sRdpData)
library(tidyverse)

srdp_orgs() %>% 
  group_by(year) %>% 
  summarise(n = n()) %>% 
  ggplot(aes(x = year, y = n)) +
  geom_line() + 
  theme_minimal() + 
  labs(title = "Number of organizations active each year, 1960-2005",
       x = "Year",
       y = NULL)