get_surveys {coalitions} | R Documentation |
Scrape surveys from all pollsters
Description
Given a specific date, extract the survey from this date or the last one before this date.
Usage
get_surveys(country = c("DE", "AT"))
get_surveys_by()
get_surveys_rp()
get_surveys_nds()
get_surveys_saxony()
get_surveys_brb()
get_surveys_thuringen()
get_latest(surveys = NULL, max_date = Sys.Date())
Arguments
country |
Choose country from which surveys should be scraped.
Currently |
surveys |
If provided, latest survey will be obtained from this object,
otherwise calls |
max_date |
Specifies the date, relative to which latest survey will
be searched for. Defaults to |
Value
Nested tibble. When fully unnested, the dataset contains the following columns:
- pollster
Character name of the polling institute.
- date
Publication date of the poll.
- start, end
Start and end date of the field period, i.e. the dates during which the poll was conducted.
- respondents
Number of respondents in the poll.
- party
Character name of an individual party.
- percent
Percentage of respondents that chose the party. Given in percentage points, i.e.
38%
is given as38
.- votes
Number of respondents that chose the party.
Examples
## Not run:
library(coalitions)
# scrape data for the German federal election
# get_surveys()
## End(Not run)
library(coalitions)
### Scrape the newest poll for the German federal election
# Possibility 1: Calling get_latest without arguments scrapes surveys from the web
# Possibility 2: Use get_latest() on an already scraped dataset
surveys <- get_latest(surveys_sample)