R/elections.R

In jrnold/qss-data: Data and Code for "Quantitative Social Science: An Introduction"

#' County-Level US Presidential Election Data
#'
#' US Presidential Election Data by county for each state between 1960 and 2012.
#'
#' @format A data frame with 43494 rows and 6 variables:
#' \describe{
#'  \item{ year }{ integer: election year }
#'  \item{ state }{ character: full name of the 48 states (excluding Alaska, Hawaii, and the District of Columbia) }
#'  \item{ county }{ character: county name }
#'  \item{ rep }{ integer: popular votes for the Republican candidate }
#'  \item{ dem }{ integer: popular votes for the Democratic candidate }
#'  \item{ other }{ integer: popular votes for other candidates }
#' }
#'
#'
#' @details
#' See \emph{QSS} Table 5.8.
#'
#'
#' @references
#' Imai, Kosuke. 2017. \emph{Quantitative Social Science: An Introduction}.
#' Princeton University Press. \href{http://press.princeton.edu/titles/11025.html}{URL}.
#'
"elections"