NEWS.md
mps_on_date()
no longer imports redundant
constituency data.
updates to party_colours
dataset
bes_2019
data,
spotted by Antony Unwin.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.
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
.
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.
leave_votes_west
dataset.mps_on_date()
that were causing problems
on Windows.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.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.