njtierney / australianelections

R package of datasets related to Australian elections (1901-2019)

AustralianElections

AustralianElections is a collection of datasets related to Australian elections The datasets are:

• elections.rda: The main dataset.
• parliaments.rda: Dates of each parliament.
• voting_data.rda: All federal elections.

The datasets are up-to-date as of 10 September 2019.

If you have suggestions on how I could improve the datasets, or corrections, please don’t hesitate to get in touch.

Installation

You can install this package from GitHub with:

# install.packages("devtools")
devtools::install_github("RohanAlexander/AustralianElections")

Example

This is a example of how to load the data:

library(tidyverse)

devtools::install_github("RohanAlexander/AustralianElections")

elections <- AustralianElections::elections %>% as_tibble()
parliaments <- AustralianElections::parliaments %>% as_tibble()
voting_data <- AustralianElections::voting_data %>% as_tibble()

Dataset details

TBD

TODO

Roadmap

Sources

Acknowledgements

Citation

If you use AustralianElections, please consider citing:

Alexander, Rohan. (2019). AustralianElections: Datasets on Australian Elections. Source: https://github.com/RohanAlexander/AustralianElections.

Author information

Rohan Alexander (corresponding author and repository maintainer)
University of Toronto
Information Sciences
140 St George St
Toronto, ON, Canada
Email: [email protected]