convert_esaps {esaps}

Converts data in table form to tidy_data

Description

Convert data in table format to tidy_data to use in the indicators of the tidy_data.

Usage

convert_esaps(
  path = NULL,
  dataset = NULL,
  file.name = NULL,
  nSheets = 1,
  election.name,
  unit.name,
  M.name = NULL,
  votes_nac.name = NULL,
  seats = FALSE,
  allSheet = FALSE
)

Arguments

path

Character vector containing one or more path names.

dataset

Electoral results by party. It can be a data.frame or a list.

file.name

Name of the data file with extension.

nSheets

Number of countries (number of sheets).' 'Country' is a generic unit of analysis (province, department, etc.)

election.name

Name of the variable that contains elections.

unit.name

Name of the variable that contains the unit. 'unit' is a generic unit of analysis (province, department, etc.)

M.name

Name of the variable that contains the district magnitude (M+1). It is for the calculation of endogenous and exogenous electoral volatility (Torcal and Lago, 2015).

votes_nac.name

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seats

By default it is FALSE. If it is TRUE, it indicates that, in addition to electoral data per party, there is allocation data per seat. In this case, one column must be loaded for each party with the electoral result and another with the number of seats it obtained. The structure must be: party_1, party_2, ..., party_n, seats_party_1, seats_party_2, ..., seats_party_n.

allSheet

By default it is FALSE. Load all the sheets that are in the files selected in file.name. This argument takes precedence over nSheets.

Value

data.frame

Author(s)

Nicolas Schmidt [e-mail]

Examples

votes <- list(data.frame(country = rep("ARG", 3),
                         year = c(1995, 2000, 2005),
                         party_A = c(40,10,20),
                         party_B = c(35,20,40),
                         party_C = c(25,70,40)),
              data.frame(country = rep("URY", 4),
                         year = c(1995, 2000, 2005, 2010),
                         party_A = c(30,30,20,20),
                         party_B = c(30,50,40, 30),
                         party_C = c(30,10,30, 25),
                         party_D = c(10,10,10,25)),
              data.frame(country = rep("BRA", 2),
                         year = c(1993, 1998),
                         party_A = c(30, 55),
                         party_B = c(70, 45)))

votes <- convert_esaps(dataset = votes, unit.name = "country", election.name = "year")


votes2 <- data.frame(year = c(2000, 2005),
                     country = "URY",
                     votes_party1 = c(20, 30),
                     votes_party2 = c(30, 35),
                     votes_party3 = c(40, 25),
                     votes_party4 = c(10, 10),
                     seats_party1 = c(25, 35),
                     seats_party2 = c(20, 30),
                     seats_party3 = c(40, 30),
                     seats_party4 = c(15, 5))

votes <- convert_esaps(dataset = votes2, unit.name = "country", election.name = "year",
                       seats = TRUE)


## Not run: 
v1 <- convert_esaps(path = getwd(),
                   file.name = c("electionBRA.xlsx", "electionARG.xlsx"),
                   election.name = "elec",
                   unit.name = "district",
                   allSheet = TRUE)

v2 <-convert_esaps(path = getwd(),
                   file.name = c("ARG.ods", "URY.ods", "BRA.ods"),
                   nCountry = c(2, 3, 1),
                   election.name = "elec",
                   unit.name = "province")

v3 <- convert_esaps(path = here::here(),
                   file.name = list.files(pattern = "*.xlsx"),
                   election.name = "year",
                   unit.name = "country",
                   M.name = "magnitude",
                   seats = TRUE,
                   allSheet = TRUE)

## End(Not run)