write.pollyvote: write a pollyvote prediction / error calculation

In pollyvote/pollyvoter: Aggregate Components, Calculate Forecasts and Determine Errors for Election Results.

Description

writes the result of a prediction of a pollyvote object to a .csv file.

Usage

write.pollyvote(x, file = "", method = "write.table", prediction = NULL,
  error_calculation = NULL, write_args = list(), ...)

Arguments

x	[pollyvote(1)] pollyvote object to predict from.
file	[character(1)] either a character string naming a file or a connection open for writing. "" indicates output to the console.
method	[character(1)] function name of the write function to use. Currently supported are 'write.table', 'write.csv' and 'write.csv2'.
prediction	[character(1)] method of the prediction to be plotted.
error_calculation	[character(1)] method of the error_calculation to be plotted.
write_args	[list()] list of arguments to the write function specified in method.
...	additional arguments to the prediction or error calculation function.

Value

Nothing. A file is created.

Examples

pv = create_pollyvote(perm_countries = "D")
data("polls_individual")
pv = add_data(pv, newdata = polls_individual, country = "D", region = "national", 
              source_type = "poll", election = "BTW")
write.pollyvote(pv, file = "pred.csv", method = "write.table", 
                prediction = "pollyvote")

pollyvote/pollyvoter documentation built on May 25, 2019, 11:23 a.m.