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Download data on local election coalitions in Brazil

Source: R/legend_local.R
legend_local.Rd

legend_local() downloads and aggregates the party denominations (coalitions or parties) from the local elections in Brazil, disaggregated by cities. The function returns a data.frame where each observation corresponds to a city.

Usage

legend_local(year, uf = "all", encoding = "latin1", temp = TRUE)

Arguments

year

Election year. For this function, only the years 2008, 2012, 2016, 2020, and 2024 are available.

uf

Federation Unit acronym (character vector).

encoding

Data original encoding (defaults to 'Latin-1'). This can be changed to avoid errors when ascii = TRUE.

temp

(logical). If TRUE, keep the temporary compressed file for future use (recommended)

Value

legend_local() returns a data.frame.

Details

If export is set to TRUE, the downloaded data is saved as .dta and .sav files in the current directory.

Examples

if (FALSE) { # \dontrun{
df <- legend_local(2000)
} # }