Agregado_Prov_MIR: Download. Reading of aggregate data at the provincial level obtained from the MIR (Spanish Ministry of Home Office)
Description
This function is used to download the data in Excel format at the
provincial level and upload a data.frame with that information into R. Note: The
returned fields are all of character format, so if you need to perform
operations, you will have to convert the required fields to numeric.
The election year in four-digit format (YYYY). Can be numeric or text.
Mes
The election month. It has to be of character format. For example "06", corresponding to June.
Tipo
The type of elections to which the data to be downloaded correspond: Congress (you must pass to the function the word "Congreso") or European (you must pass to the function the word "Europeas").
Ruta
It is the local path from your computer where the zip files from the Spanish Ministry of Home Office (MIR) will be dowloaded.
Borrar
It is a Boolean variable that indicates whether or not the downloaded files are deleted after creating the data.frame in R.
Value
Object of type 'tbl_df' with the data at provincial level.