| fec16 {fec16} | R Documentation |
fec16: A Data Package for the 2016 Elections
Description
The fec16 package provides the following 9 datasets from the Federal Election Commission's 2015-2016 election cycle:
Datasets
Candidates: candidates
Committees: committees
House Results: results_house
Senate Results: results_senate
Presidential Results: results_president
Individual Contributions: individuals
Committee Contributions: contributions
House/Senate Current Campaigns: campaigns
Operating Expenditures: expenditures
Transactions From One Committee To Another: transactions
Political Action Committee (PAC) and Party Summary Financial Information: pac
The entire candidates, committees, campaigns, results_house, results_senate, results_president, and pac datasets and samples containing 1000 entries of the other datasets are available directly in the package. For the datasets containing samples, full versions can be retrieved via the following functions:
Individual Contributions: read_all_individuals
Committee Contributions: read_all_contributions
Operating Expenditures: read_all_expenditures
Transactions From One Committee To Another: read_all_transactions
In addition, fec16 provides the states dataset giving geographical information about the 50 states.
Authors
Marium Tapal: https://github.com/mariumtapal
Irene Ryan: https://github.com/ireneryan
Rana Gahwagy: https://github.com/ranawg
Ben Baumer: https://github.com/beanumber