sen90 {oc} | R Documentation |
This dataframe contains a matrix of votes cast by U.S. Senators
in the 90th Congress. The data are formatted consistent with the
rollcall
object format in Simon Jackman's pscl
package.
data(sen90)
The dataframe contains roll call data for all Senators in the 90th Senate.
The data is formatted as a rollcall
object with the following elements.
votes |
data frame, containing all data from the old nom31.dat file about
legislators. For a typical W-NOMINATE object run with an ORD file read using
readKH , it will contain the following:
|
codes |
list of four vectors. yea shows the codes in votes that are yea
votes, 'nay' shows nay codes, notInLegis shows absences, and missing
shows the missing codes. |
n |
numeric, number of legislators |
m |
numeric, number of roll calls |
legis.data |
data frame, containing the following information on legislators:
|
vote.data |
null, would otherwise be a data frame containing data on the votes. |
desc |
null, would otherwise be a string describing the data set. |
source |
string, describing where data set was read from. |
Keith Poole kpoole@ucsd.edu
Jeffrey Lewis jblewis@ucla.edu
James Lo jameslo@ucla.edu
Royce Carroll rcarroll@ucsd.edu
Keith Poole. 2005. 90th Senate Roll Call Vote Data. http://www.voteview.com/.
'oc'.
#This data file is the same as reading file using: #sen90 <- readKH("ftp://voteview.com/sen90kh.ord") #All ORD files can be found on www.voteview.com data(sen90) summary(sen90) result<-oc(sen90,polarity=c(2,5)) summary(result) plot(result)