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Download data on the polls by parties from local elections in Brazil

Source: R/party_mun_zone_local.R
party_mun_zone_local.Rd

party_mun_zone_local() downloads and aggregates data on the polls by parties from local elections in Brazil, disaggregated by electoral zone. The function returns a data.frame where each observation corresponds to a city/zone.

Usage

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

Arguments

year

Election year. For this function, only the years 1996, 2000, 2004, 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

party_mun_zone_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.

Note

For the elections prior to 2000, some information can be incomplete.

Examples

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