add_pm: Add Prime Minister to Dated Datasets

In jackobailey/PollBasePro: Data and Functions for Studying British Politics

Description

It's often useful to know who the Prime Minister was at any point in time when analysing political data. This function takes a dataset that includes a dated variable and adds to it a new column that shows who the Prime Minister was at each moment in time.

Usage

add_pm(data = NULL, date = "date", name = "prime_minister")

Arguments

data	A dataset that includes a date variable.
date	The name of your date variable in your data.
name	What to call the new column of Prime Ministers. Defaults to "prime_minister".

Value

A tibble of data.

Examples

dta <- data.frame(date = seq.Date(as.Date("2000-01-01"), as.Date("2020-01-01"), by = "year"))
add_pm(data = dta, date = "date", name = "prime_minister")

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