rescale

indicates the minimum of the new scale (default is -1)

newmin

indicates the maximum of the new scale (default is +1)

newmax

indicates the minimum of the existing scale. Can be used to rescale from a known theoretical scale (e.g. -100). If left empty the empirical minimum is used.

oldmin

indicates the maximum of the existing. See above.

oldmax

Simple linear rescaling of positions

Provides access to coded election programmes from the Manifesto
Corpus and to the Manifesto Project's Main Dataset and routines to analyse this
data. The Manifesto Project <https://manifesto-project.wzb.eu> collects and
analyses election programmes across time and space to measure the political
preferences of parties. The Manifesto Corpus contains the collected and
annotated election programmes in the Corpus format of the package 'tm' to enable
easy use of text processing and text mining functionality. Specific functions
for scaling of coded political texts are included.

rescale: Simple linear rescaling of positions

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