candidate_local {electionsBR}

Download data on the candidates' background in local elections

Description

candidate_local() 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_local(year, uf = "all", 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).

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 with the following variables:

Note

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

Examples

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

## End(Not run)