rescale

indicates the minimum of the new scale (default is -1)

newmin

indicates the maximum of the new scale (default is +1)

newmax

indicates the minimum of the existing scale. Can be used to rescale from a known theoretical scale (e.g. -100). If left empty the empirical minimum is used.

oldmin

indicates the maximum of the existing. See above.

oldmax

Provides access to coded election programmes from
    the Manifesto Corpus and to the Manifesto Project's Main Dataset. The Manifesto
    Project (https://manifesto-project.wzb.eu) collects and analyses election
    programmes across time and space to measure the political preferences
    of parties. The Manifesto Corpus contains the collected
    and annotated election programmes in the Corpus format of the package 'tm' to enable
    easy use of text processing and text mining functionality. Specific functions
    for scaling of coded political texts are included.

rescale: Simple linear rescaling of positions

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