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.