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Ecfun (version 0.1-7)

Functions for Ecdat

Description

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

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install.packages('Ecfun')

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Version

0.1-7

License

GPL (>= 2)

Maintainer

Spencer Graves

Last Published

May 8th, 2016

Functions in Ecfun (0.1-7)

readFinancialCrisisFiles

banking crisis data and function to read financial crisis files

Arrows

Draw arrows between pairs of points.

pmatch2

Value matching or partial matching

createX2matchY

Create X to match Y

financialCrisisFiles

Files containing financial crisis data

sign

Sign function with zero option

parseCommas

Convert character string with Dollar signs and commas to numerics

readUSsenate

Read the list of elected officials in the United States Senate

qqnorm2

Normal Probability Plot with Multiple Symbols

BoxCox

Box-Cox power transformation and its inverse

countsByYear

Allocate totals by year

missing0

Missing or length 0

readUShouse

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

matchQuote

Match isolated quotes across records

countByYear

Allocate a total by year

qqnorm2s

Normal Probability Plot with Multiple Lines and Multiple Symbols

mergeUShouse.senate

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

readDates3to1

read.csv with Dates in 3 columns

camelParse

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

strsplit1

Split the first field

truncdist

Truncated distribution

parseName

Parse surname and given name

Date3to1

Convert three YMD vectors to a Date

interpChar

Interpolate between numbers or numbers of characters

readNIPA

Read a National Income and Product Accounts data table

readUSstateAbbreviations

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

asNumericDF

Coerce to numeric dropping commas and info after a blank

read.transpose

Read a data table in transpose form

Dates3to1

Convert 3-column dates in data to class Date

whichAeqB

Index of a single match

grepNonStandardCharacters

grep for nonstandard characters

classIndex

Convert class to an integer 1-8 and vice versa

recode2

bivariate recode

Interp

Interpolate between numbers or numbers of characters

checkNames

Check and return names

dateCols

Identify YMD names in a character vector

nchar0

Zero characters or NULL

Newdata

Create a new data.frame for predict

read.testURLs

Read a file produced by testURLs

canbeNumeric

Can a variable reasonably be coerced to numeric?

subNonStandardCharacters

sub nonstandard characters with replacement

interpPairs

interpolate between pairs of vectors in a list

logVarCor

Log-diagonal reprentation of a variance matrix

rgrep

Reverse grep

trimImage

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

getElement2

Extract a named element from an object with a default

rasterImageAdj

rasterImage adjusting to zero distortion

mergeVote

Merge Roll Call Vote

subNonStandardNames

sub for nonstandard names

compareLengths

Compare the lengths of two objects

match.data.frame

Identify the row of y best matching each row of x

matchName

Match surname and givenName in a table

Ping

ping a Uniform resource locator (URL)

testURLs

Test URLs for intermittent download problems

UShouse.senate

Create a list of members of the US House and Senate

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

parseDollars

Convert character string with Dollar signs and commas to numerics

readCookPVI

Read Cook Partisan Voting Index

USsenateClass

Election Class given state and surname of a US Senator