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Ecfun (version 0.1-6)

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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0.1-6

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GPL (>= 2)

Maintainer

Spencer Graves

Last Published

August 2nd, 2015

Functions in Ecfun (0.1-6)

USsenateClass

Election Class given state and surname of a US Senator

getElement2

Extract a named element from an object with a default

grepNonStandardCharacters

grep for nonstandard characters

readFinancialCrisisFiles

banking crisis data and function to read financial crisis files

readNIPA

Read a National Income and Product Accounts data table

Arrows

Draw arrows between pairs of points.

rasterImageAdj

rasterImage adjusting to zero distortion

compareLengths

Compare the lengths of two objects

BoxCox

Box-Cox power transformation and its inverse

interpPairs

interpolate between pairs of vectors in a list

read.testURLs

Read a file produced by testURLs

match.data.frame

Identify the row of y best matching each row of x

checkNames

Check and return names

readUSsenate

Read the list of elected officials in the United States Senate

qqnorm2s

Normal Probability Plot with Multiple Lines and Multiple Symbols

read.transpose

Read a data table in transpose form

asNumericDF

Coerce to numeric dropping commas and info after a blank

camelParse

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

parseDollars

Convert character string with Dollar signs and commas to numerics

classIndex

Convert class to an integer 1-8 and vice versa

UShouse.senate

Create a list of members of the US House and Senate

createX2matchY

Create X to match Y

pmatch2

Value matching or partial matching

interpChar

Interpolate between numbers or numbers of characters

strsplit1

Split the first field

Ping

ping a Uniform resource locator (URL)

parseName

Parse surname and given name

mergeUShouse.senate

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

parseCommas

Convert character string with Dollar signs and commas to numerics

trimImage

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

matchName

Match surname and givenName in a table

subNonStandardCharacters

sub nonstandard characters with replacement

mergeVote

Merge Roll Call Vote

readCookPVI

Read Cook Partisan Voting Index

readUShouse

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

Interp

Interpolate between numbers or numbers of characters

testURLs

Test URLs for intermittent download problems

qqnorm2

Normal Probability Plot with Multiple Symbols

subNonStandardNames

sub for nonstandard names

whichAeqB

Index of a single match

Match isolated quotes across records

financialCrisisFiles

Files containing financial crisis data

readUSstateAbbreviations

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

as.Date1970

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

createMessage

Compose a message as a single substring from a character vector

nchar0

Zero characters or NULL

truncdist

Truncated distribution