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Ecfun (version 0.1-2)

Functions for Ecdat

Description

Functions to update datasets in Ecdat and to create, manipulate, plot and analyze those and similar datasets.

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install.packages('Ecfun')

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0.1-2

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GPL (>= 2)

Maintainer

Spencer Graves

Last Published

October 28th, 2014

Functions in Ecfun (0.1-2)

interpPairs

interpolate between pairs of vectors in a list

qqnorm2

Normal Probability Plot with Multiple Symbols

missing0

Missing or length 0

as.Date1970

Date from a number of days since the start of 1970.

parseName

Parse surname and given name

readFinancialCrisisFiles

banking crisis data and function to read financial crisis files

matchQuote

Match isolated quotes across records

trimImage

Trim zero rows or columns from an object of class Image.

classIndex

Convert class to an integer 1-8 and vice versa

readUShouse

Read the list of representatives in the United States House of Representatives

mergeVote

Merge Roll Call Vote

compareLengths

Compare the lengths of two objects

subNonStandardCharacters

sub nonstandard characters with replacement

checkNames

Check and return names

readNIPA

Read a National Income and Product Accounts data table

rasterImageAdj

rasterImage adjusting to zero distortion

createMessage

Compose a message as a single substring from a character vector

Ping

ping a Uniform resource locator (URL)

readCookPVI

Read Cook Partisan Voting Index

subNonStandardNames

sub for nonstandard names

grepNonStandardCharacters

grep for nonstandard characters

USsenateClass

Election Class given state and surname of a US Senator

match.data.frame

Identify the row of y best matching each row of x

asNumericDF

Coerce to numeric dropping commas and info after a blank

getElement2

Extract a named element from an object with a default

UShouse.senate

Create a list of members of the US House and Senate

strsplit1

Split the first field

financialCrisisFiles

Files containing financial crisis data

createX2matchY

Create X to match Y

parseCommas

Convert character string with Dollar signs and commas to numerics

recode2

bivariate recode

truncdist

Truncated distribution

read.transpose

Read a data table in transpose form

qqnorm2s

Normal Probability Plot with Multiple Lines and Multiple Symbols

whichAeqB

Index of a single match

read.testURLs

Read a file produced by testURLs

nchar0

Zero characters or NULL

readUSsenate

Read the list of elected officials in the United States Senate

Interp

Interpolate between numbers or numbers of characters

mergeUShouse.senate

Expand a dataset on some members of the US Congress to the entire membership

testURLs

Test URLs for intermittent download problems

parseDollars

Convert character string with Dollar signs and commas to numerics

readUSstateAbbreviations

Read a list of abbreviations of states and territories of the United States

Arrows

Draw arrows between pairs of points.

interpChar

Interpolate between numbers or numbers of characters

camelParse

Split a character string where a capital letter follows a lowercase letter