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Ecfun (version 0.2-0)

Functions for Ecdat

Description

Functions to update data sets in Ecdat and to create, manipulate, plot and analyze those and similar data sets.

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install.packages('Ecfun')

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Version

0.2-0

License

GPL (>= 2)

Maintainer

Spencer Graves

Last Published

February 25th, 2019

Functions in Ecfun (0.2-0)

canbeNumeric

Can a variable reasonably be coerced to numeric?

BoxCox

Box-Cox power transformation and its inverse

dateCols

Identify YMD names in a character vector

createX2matchY

Create X to match Y

compareLengths

Compare the lengths of two objects

readFinancialCrisisFiles

banking crisis data and function to read financial crisis files

readDates3to1

read.csv with Dates in 3 columns

classIndex

Convert class to an integer 1-8 and vice versa

getElement2

Extract a named element from an object with a default

financialCrisisFiles

Files containing financial crisis data

countsByYear

Allocate totals by year

createMessage

Compose a message as a single substring from a character vector

grepNonStandardCharacters

grep for nonstandard characters

mergeVote

Merge Roll Call Vote

read.transpose

Read a data table in transpose form

asNumericDF

Coerce to numeric dropping commas and info after a blank

camelParse

Split a character string where a capital letter follows a lowercase letter

missing0

Missing or length 0

readCookPVI

Read Cook Partisan Voting Index

confint.var

Confidence interval for sample variance or standard deviation

readUSsenate

Read the list of elected officials in the United States Senate

readUSstateAbbreviations

Read a list of abbreviations of states and territories of the United States

checkNames

Check and return names

parseCommas

Convert character string with Dollar signs and commas to numerics

matchName

Match surname and givenName in a table

match.data.frame

Identify the row of y best matching each row of x

nchar0

Zero characters or NULL

pmatch2

Value matching or partial matching

interpChar

Interpolate between numbers or numbers of characters

qqnorm2

Normal Probability Plot with Multiple Symbols

parseDollars

Convert character string with Dollar signs and commas to numerics

subNonStandardCharacters

sub nonstandard characters with replacement

parseName

Parse surname and given name

subNonStandardNames

sub for nonstandard names

qqnorm2t

Normal Probability Plot with Multiple Lines and Multiple Symbols

qqnorm2s

Normal Probability Plot with Multiple Lines and Multiple Symbols

countByYear

Allocate a total by year

sign

Sign function with zero option

rasterImageAdj

rasterImage adjusting to zero distortion

read.testURLs

Read a file produced by testURLs

recode2

bivariate recode

strsplit1

Split the first field

rgrep

Reverse grep

whichAeqB

Index of a single match

truncdist

Truncated distribution

interpPairs

interpolate between pairs of vectors in a list

logVarCor

Log-diagonal reprentation of a variance matrix

matchQuote

Match isolated quotes across records

mergeUShouse.senate

Expand a dataset on some members of the US Congress to the entire membership

readNIPA

Read a National Income and Product Accounts data table

readUShouse

Read the list of representatives in the United States House of Representatives

testURLs

Test URLs for intermittent download problems

trimImage

Trim zero rows or columns from an object of class Image.

Ping

ping a Uniform resource locator (URL)

UShouse.senate

Create a list of members of the US House and Senate

Date3to1

Convert three YMD vectors to a Date

Dates3to1

Convert 3-column dates in data to class Date

as.Date1970

Date from a number of days since the start of 1970.

USsenateClass

Election Class given state and surname of a US Senator

Arrows

Draw arrows between pairs of points.

Interp

Interpolate between numbers or numbers of characters

Newdata

Create a new data.frame for predict