rollcall object, 109th U.S. Senate (2005-06).
A sample rollcall object, generated using a collection of the rollcalls of the 109th U.S. Senate (2005-2006).
data(s109)
A rollcall object containing the recorded votes of the 109th
U.S. Senate, plus information identifying the legislators and the
rollcalls.
Note the coding scheme used by Poole and Rosenthal; Yea (1), Nay (6) etc.
Keith Poole's web site: https://legacy.voteview.com/senate109.htm
Originally scraped from the Senate's web site by Jeff Lewis (UCLA).
Information identifying the votes is available at https://voteview.com/static/data/out/rollcalls/S109_rollcalls.csv
require(pscl)
data(s109)
is(s109,"rollcall") ## TRUE
s109 ## print method for class rollcall
summary(s109) ## summary method
summary(s109,verbose=TRUE)
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## how s109 was created
require(pscl)
s109 <- readKH("https://voteview.com/static/data/out/votes/S109_votes.ord",
desc="109th U.S. Senate",
debug=TRUE)
url <- "https://voteview.com/static/data/out/rollcalls/S109_rollcalls.csv"
s109$vote.data <- data.frame(read.csv(file=url,header=TRUE))
s109$vote.data$date <- as.Date(s109$vote.data$date,
format="
dimnames(s109$votes)[[2]] <- paste(s109$vote.data$session,
s109$vote.data$number,sep="-")
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