R/rd-Presidents.R

In svmiller/stevedata: Steve's Toy Data for Teaching About a Variety of Methodological, Social, and Political Topics

#' @importFrom tibble tibble
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#' U.S. Presidents and Their Terms in Office
#'
#' This should be self-evident. Here are all U.S. presidents who have completed
#'  their terms in office (i.e. excluding the current one).
#'
#' @format A data frame with 45 observations on the following 3 variables.
#' \describe{
#' \item{\code{president}}{the president}
#' \item{\code{start}}{the start date of the term, as a date}
#' \item{\code{end}}{the end date of the term, as a date}
#' }
#'
#' @details I scraped this from \url{https://www.presidentsusa.net/presvplist.html}.
#' Data frame is capital-P "Presidents" to avoid a conflict with the
#' \code{presidents} data frame from the \code{datasets} package.
#'
"Presidents"