convert roll call matrix to series of vectors
Extract the information in a roll call matrix as a series of vectors with voting decision, a unique identifier for the legislator and a unique identifier for the roll call.
vectorRepresentation(object, dropList = list(codes = c("missing", "notInLegis")))object |
an object of class |
dropList |
a |
It is often the case that roll call matrices are sparse, say, when the roll call matrix has an “overlapping generations” structure; e.g., consider forming data by pooling across a long temporal sequence of legislatures such that relatively few of the legislators in the data set actually vote on any given roll call. In such a case, representing the data as a roll call matrix is not particularly helpful nor efficient, either for data summaries or modeling.
A matrix with z rows, where z is the
number of non-missing entries in object$votes, with
‘missingness’ defined by the codes component of the
dropList. The matrix has 3 columns:
vote |
the voting decision, either a |
i |
the row of the roll call matrix |
j |
the column of the roll call matrix |
Simon Jackman simon.jackman@sydney.edu.au
data(s109) y <- vectorRepresentation(s109) apply(y,2,table,exclude=NULL)
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