add_pm: Add Prime Minister to Dated Datasets

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

Add Prime Minister to Dated Datasets

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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