electionsBR (version 0.4.0)

vote_section: Download data on candidate electoral results in federal elections in Brazil by electoral section

Description

vote_section() downloads and cleans data on the verification of federal elections in Brazil, disaggregated by electoral section. Different from other electionsBR's functions, results are only extract for individual states, one at a time. The function returns a data.frame where each observation corresponds to an electoral section in a given Brazilian state.

Usage

vote_section(
  year,
  uf = "AC",
  encoding = "latin1",
  temp = TRUE,
  readme_pdf = FALSE
)

Value

vote_section() returns a data.frame.

Arguments

year

Election year. For this function, only the years 1998, 2002, 2006, 2010, and 2014 are available.

uf

Federation Unit acronym (character vector). Defaults to 'AC' (Acre).

encoding

Data original encoding (defaults to 'Latin-1'). This can be changed to avoid errors when ascii = TRUE.

temp

(logical). If TRUE, keep the temporary compressed file for future use (recommended)

readme_pdf

original file

Details

If export is set to TRUE, the data is saved as .dta and .sav files in the working directory.

Examples

if (FALSE) {
df <- vote_section(2002)
}