partycoloR (version 0.2.0)

get_partyfacts_wikipedia: Download Partyfacts Wikipedia data

Description

Downloads the current Partyfacts Wikipedia dataset containing party names, countries, and Wikipedia URLs for thousands of political parties worldwide.

Usage

get_partyfacts_wikipedia(cache = TRUE)

Value

A tibble with columns: country, partyfacts_id, url, name_short, name, name_native, year_founded, year_dissolved.

Arguments

cache

Logical. If `TRUE` (default), caches the downloaded data for the current R session to avoid repeated downloads.

Details

The data comes from the Partyfacts project (<https://partyfacts.herokuapp.com/>), which links party datasets and provides Wikipedia URLs for political parties. The data is downloaded from the Partyfacts GitHub repository.

See Also

[lookup_party_url()] for searching parties in the dataset.

Examples

# \donttest{
if (curl::has_internet()) {
  # Download the dataset
  pf_data <- get_partyfacts_wikipedia()

  # View parties from Germany
  pf_data[pf_data$country == "DEU", ]
}
# }