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)
Arguments
- cache
Logical. If `TRUE` (default), caches the downloaded data for the
current R session to avoid repeated downloads.
Value
A tibble with columns: country, partyfacts_id, url, name_short, name,
name_native, year_founded, year_dissolved.
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
if (FALSE) { # \dontrun{
# Download the dataset
pf_data <- get_partyfacts_wikipedia()
# View parties from Germany
pf_data[pf_data$country == "DEU", ]
} # }
