ideologicalDistance: Compute ideological distance.

In lindbrook/vizip: Visualize Ideal Points

Description

Compute ideological distance.

Usage

ideologicalDistance(congress = 100, chamber = "house", state = NULL,
  data.version = "common", dimension = "both", wt2D = TRUE,
  mcdonald = TRUE, stump = TRUE, method2D = "euclidean")

Arguments

congress	Numeric. Session number.
chamber	Character. "house", "senate" or "both".
state	Character. Two character state postal abbreviation (e.g., "CA") or "US" (President). Lower case OK (e.g, "ca").
data.version	Character. DW-NOMINATE flavor: "common", "common.weekly" or "dw".
dimension	Character. "first", "second" or "both".
wt2D	Logical. Weight second dimension.
mcdonald	Logical. Include Larry McDonald (GA-D).
stump	Logical. Include Bob Stump (AZ-D).
method2D	Character. Method of computing 2D distance: "euclidean" or "manhattan".

Value

An R dataframe

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