bes_2019 data, spotted by Antony Unwin.Added 2019 UK General Election Results
Minor vignette improvements
Changed gss_code to ons_const_id in the leave_votes_west dataset to ensure consistent naming of parliamentary constituency codes
Added Northern Ireland GE results
Fixed formatting of percentages in the leave_votes_west dataset so they are all scaled on 0-1 rather than some on 0-1 and some on 0-100.
Improved the organisation of the British Election Study dataset documentation.
parlitools no longer stores local council party data. The most up-to-date data on the political make-up of local councils and individual councillors can be be accessed with the new council_seats() function.
Updated the leave_votes_west dataset to include the latest best-estimates of constituency level votes from Chris Hanretty and the actual votes, where known.
Fixed errors caused by duplicated vignette names.
Eliminated some dependencies.
Changed party_id in the party_colour dataset to a character vector.
Otherwise very minor update, some tweaks to docs layout.
council_data dataset to be accurate as of 2017-11-24.Updating of council_data dataset to be accurate as of 2017-09-13.
Added combined_leave_vote column to leave_votes_west dataset with the actual leave vote if known and the Chris Hanretty estimate if not known.
Vote percentages in leave_votes_west are now all numeric class.
mnis and hansard packages.Improvements to documentation to improve clarity and readability.
Better example plots in introductory vignette.
The tidying functions are now all internal to the package and not exported.
New bes_2017 dataset, with results of 2017 General Election, taken from the 2017 British Election Study. This dataset replaces the ge_2017 dataset. It also replicates some of the data in the bes_2015 dataset.
Census data from the British Election Study has been moved to its own separate file, named census11.
onsconst_id is now ons_const_id).Changes to vignettes to comply with CRAN policies and to reduce the time needed to check the package.
Reduction in the number of similar vignette examples to reduce build time.
Updating of council_data dataset to be accurate as of 2017-07-14.
New ge_2017 dataset, with results of 2017 General Election, linked with constituency data from bes_2015.
bes_2015.leave_votes_west dataset.mps_on_date() that were causing problems on Windows.leave_votes_west containing estimates and - where available - official counts of the proportion of leave votes in the 2016 EU referendum.Updated bes_2015 to use V2.21 from the British Election Study.
Added council_data dataset, with details on the parties controlling local councils across the UK.
Fixed bug in mps_on_date where function did not return constituency data. mps_on_date also now accepts dates in any format or class that can be converted with as.Date() to a date format.
Fixed names party names in party_colour to align with names used in bes_2015.
Fixed spelling mistakes in Endiburgh constituency names in bes_2015.
tidy_style parameter in current_mps() and mps_on_date(), allowing users to decide which style snake_case, camelCase and period.case they want variable names to be in, if 'tidy'==TRUE.parlitools to create scaled maps with the cartogram package.local_hex_map, a hexagonal map of all local authority areas in Scotland, Wales and England.mps_on_date function downloads information on every MP and their constituency who was a member of the house on a single given date, or between two given dates.parlitools, a package for retrieving and analysing UK political data. The package includes datasets from the British Election Study, a hexagonal map of all UK constituencies, and party colour hex codes.The package includes a dataset with 2015 General Election results and census information for each constituency in Scotland, Wales and England, taken from the British Election Study.
The package also includes a dataset (party_colours) with the hex code for the official colours of UK political parties.
west_hex_map) of all 650 constituencies in the UK.current_mps function downloads information on every sitting MP and their constituency.