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Download data on the voters' profile

Source: R/voter_profile.R
voter_profile.Rd

voter_profile() downloads and cleans data on the voters' profile aggregated by state, city and electoral zone. The function returns a data.frame where each observation corresponds to a voter profile type.

Usage

voter_profile(year, encoding = "windows-1252", temp = TRUE, readme_pdf = FALSE)

Arguments

year

Election year (integer). For this function, the following years are available: 1998, 2000, 2002, 2004, 2006, 2008, 2010, 2012, 2014, 2016, 2018, 2020, 2022, and 2024.

encoding

Data original encoding (defaults to 'windows-1252'). This can be changed to avoid errors when ascii = TRUE. #'

temp

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

readme_pdf

original readme

Value

voter_profile() 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 <- voter_profile(2002)
} # }