UN: United Nations Vote Data

Description

This data frame contains votes from the first three sessions of the United Nations. The same data can also be downloaded as a CSV file from https://legacy.voteview.com/. The object of this data set is to provide an example of how one might use the W-NOMINATE package on a set of roll call votes not already stored in ORD format.

Usage

data(UN)

Arguments

Value

This data frame contains votes from the first three sessions of the United Nations. The first column are country names, while the second column indicates membership in the former Warsaw Pact (used as a 'party' variable). Yeas are coded 1, 2, and 3, nays are coded 4, 5, and 6, missing votes are coded 7, 8, and 9, and not being in the General Assembly is coded as a 0.

Author

Keith Poole [email protected]

Jeffrey Lewis [email protected]

James Lo [email protected]

Royce Carroll [email protected]

Examples

Run this code

#The same data set can be obtained from downloading the UN.csv
#file from legacy.voteview.com and reading it as follows:
if (FALSE) {
UN<-read.csv("UN.csv",header=FALSE,strip.white=TRUE)
}

data(UN)
UN<-as.matrix(UN)
UN[1:5,1:6]

UNnames<-UN[,1]
legData<-matrix(UN[,2],length(UN[,2]),1)
colnames(legData)<-"party"
UN<-UN[,-c(1,2)]

rc <- rollcall(UN, yea=c(1,2,3), nay=c(4,5,6),
missing=c(7,8,9),notInLegis=0, legis.names=UNnames,
legis.data=legData,
desc="UN Votes",
source="legacy.voteview.com")

# Not Run
if (FALSE) {
result<-oc(rc,polarity=1,dims=1)
plot(result)
summary(result)
}