pscl (version 1.5.5)

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 rollcall
summary(object,
                 dropList=NULL,  
                 verbose=FALSE,debug=FALSE,...)
# S3 method for summary.rollcall
print(x, digits=1, ...)

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 asobject$legis.data$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

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.

See Also

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)