troopdata (version 1.0.2)

get_basedata: Function to retrieve customized U.S. basing data

Description

get_basedata() generates a customized data frame containing data obtained from David Vine's U.S. basing data.

Usage

get_basedata(host = NA, country_count = FALSE, groupvar = NULL)

Value

get_basedata() returns a data frame containing information on U.S. military bases present within selected host countries. This can be customized to include country-base observations or country-count observations.

Arguments

host

The Correlates of War (COW) numeric country code or ISO3C code for the host country or countries in the series

country_count

Logical. Should the function return a country-level count of the total number of bases or the country-site data

groupvar

A character string indicating how country count totals should be generated. Accepted values are 'countryname', 'ccode', or 'iso3c'. Can take on Required when using country_count argument.

Author

Michael E. Flynn

Details

Our research team updated these data through 2018.

References

David Vine. 2015. Base Nation. Metropolitan Books. New York, NY.

Examples

if (FALSE) {
library(tidyverse)
library(troopdata)

example <- get_basedata(host = NA)

head(example)

}