In r-congress/voteviewr: Import DW-NOMINATE Data From 'Voteview'

knitr::opts_chunk$set(
  collapse = TRUE,
  comment = "#>",
  fig.path = "man/figures/README-",
  out.width = "100%"
)
library(voteviewr)
options(width = 90)

voteviewr

Get data from Voteview.com

Installation

You can install the released version of voteviewr from CRAN with:

install.packages("voteviewr")

You can install the dev version of voteviewr from Github with:

if (!requireNamespace("remotes")) {
  install.packages("remotes")
}
remotes::install_packages("r-congress/voteviewr")

Import

Import Voteview data from the House and Senate for the 116th U.S. Congress

## read using defaults (both chambers of current congress)
cng116 <- read_voteview()

or get data from the House and Senate separately for the 115th U.S. Congress

## house 115th data
h115 <- read_voteview("house", 115)

## senate 115th data
s115 <- read_voteview("senate", "115th")

or specify a session of Congress

## both chambers of 99th Congress
cng99 <- read_voteview(99)

##
cng99 <- read_voteview(99, "senate")

or specify a year

## get data on the 99th Congress
cng1961 <- read_voteview(1961)

Data

A tibble is returned

## preview tibble
cng116

More info on all returned variables

## view object structure
str(cng116)

r-congress/voteviewr documentation built on Nov. 25, 2019, 6:43 p.m.