AfroData

A wrapper for Afrobarometer's datasets.

Installation

install.packages('devtools')
library('devtools')
devtools::install_github('AbdouSeck/AfroData')

Usage

getCountries() # to get the countries available.
getRounds(countryname) # to get the rounds of a specific country.
getNumberofRounds(countryname) # get the number of rounds of a specific country.
getRoundData(country, round) # fetch the data for a specific round.
getMergedRounds() # get all the rounds for which there is a merged dataset available.
getMergedData(roundNumber) # get the merged dataset for a given round.

To do:

1. Adding more features (i.e. getting the codebook and specifying whether to read the data with haven's read_sav or foreign's read.spss).

2. Working on vectorizing the functions, so that it becomes possible to fetch more than one dataset at a time.

3. Using some form of memoization to cache the results (this is much needed since each function call is quite expensive).

Contributing:

1. Fork it!
2. Create your feature branch: git checkout -b my-new-feature
3. Commit your changes: git commit -am 'Add some feature'
4. Push to the branch: git push origin my-new-feature
5. Submit a pull request

History

2016

Credits

Afrobarometer Data, [All Countries, [All Rounds], [All Available Years]

License

License: MIT License