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summary.rollcall

summarize a rollcall object

Description

Provides a summary of the information about votes, legislators, etc in a rollcall object.

Usage

## S3 method for class 'rollcall'
summary(object,
                 dropList=NULL,  
                 verbose=FALSE,debug=FALSE,...)

## S3 method for class 'summary.rollcall'
print(x, digits=1, ...)

Arguments

`object`	an `rollcall` object.
`dropList`	a `list` or `alist`, listing voting decisions, legislators and/or votes to be dropped from the summary; see `dropRollCall` for details.
`verbose`	logical, if `TRUE`, compute legislator-specific and vote-specific Yea/Nay/`NA` summaries
`debug`	logical, if `TRUE`, print messages to console during processing of the `rollcall` object
`x`	an object of class `summary.rollcall`
`digits`	number of decimal places in printed display
`...`	further arguments passed to or from other methods.

Value

An object of class summary.rollcall with the following elements (depending on the logical flag verbose):

`n`	number of legislators in the `rollcall` object, after processing the `dropList`
`m`	number of roll call votes in the `rollcall` object, after processing the `dropList`
`codes`	a `list` that describes how the voting decisions in the `rollcall` matrix (`object$votes`) map into “Yea” and “Nay” etc, after processing the `dropList`; see `rollcall` for more details
`allVotes`	a matrix containing a tabular breakdown of all votes in the `rollcall` matrix (`object$votes`), after processing the `dropList`
`partyTab`	a tabular breakdown of the legislators' party affiliations, after processing the `dropList`, and only if party affiliations are supplied as`object$legis.data$party`; see `rollcall` for details
`lopSided`	a tabular summary of the frequency of lop-sided roll call votes in the `rollcall` object, again, after processing the `dropList`
`legisTab`	a tabular summary of each legislators' voting history
`partyLoyalty`	the proportion of times that each legislator votes the way that a majority of his or her fellow partisans did, provided party affiliations are available
`voteTab`	a tabular summary of each rollcall's votes
`call`	the `matched call` used to invoke `summary.rollcall`

Examples

set.seed(314159265)
fakeData <- matrix(sample(x=c(0,1),size=1000,replace=TRUE),
                   10,100)
rc <- rollcall(fakeData)
rc

data(sc9497)
rc <- rollcall(sc9497)
summary(rc)

data(s109)
summary(s109)
summary(s109,verbose=TRUE)

pscl

Political Science Computational Laboratory

v1.5.5

GPL-2

Authors

Simon Jackman, with contributions from Alex Tahk, Achim Zeileis, Christina Maimone, Jim Fearon and Zoe Meers

Initial release

2020-02-25

summary.rollcall

Description

Usage

Arguments

Value

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Examples

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