candidate_fed {electionsBR}

Download data on the candidates' background in local elections

Description

candidate_fed() downloads and aggregates the data on the candidates' background who vied local elections in Brazil. The function returns a data.frame where each observation corresponds to a candidate.

Usage

candidate_fed(
  year,
  uf = "all",
  br_archive = FALSE,
  encoding = "latin1",
  temp = TRUE
)

Arguments

year

Election year. For this function, onlye the years of 1996, 2000, 2004, 2008, 2012, 2016, and 2020 are available.

uf

Federation Unit acronym (character vector).

br_archive

In the TSE's data repository, some results can be obtained for the whole country by loading a single within a single file by setting this argument to TRUE (may not work in for some elections and, in other, it recoverns only electoral data for presidential elections, absent in other files).

encoding

Data original encoding (defaults to 'latin1'). This can be changed to avoid errors when ascii = TRUE.

temp

(logical). elections_rda

Details

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

Value

candidate_local() returns a data.frame

Note

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

Examples

## Not run: 
df <- candidate_fed(2000)

## End(Not run)