PolTraj

Analysis of the professional trajectories of French politicians

• Copyright 2019-2023 Noémie Fevrat & Vincent Labatut

PolTraj is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation. For source availability and license information see licence.txt

• Lab website: http://lia.univ-avignon.fr/
• GitHub repo: https://github.com/CompNet/PolTraj
• Contact: vincent.labatut@univ-avignon.fr

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Description

This set of R scripts was written to perform a sequence analysis of BRÉF (Base de données Révisée des Élu·es de France), a data base containing a description of all types of reprsentatives elected in France.

Data

In order to execute the script, you need first to retrieve the BRÉF database, described in [LFM'20] (see also GitHub project BrefInit. However, these data are under embargo until the end of Noémie Févrat's PhD. (TODO upate)

Organization

Here are the folders composing the project:

• Folder in: all the input files, including raw data, secondary data and verification files.
• Folder log: log files produced during the processing.
• Folder out: data files and plots produced during the processing.
• Folder src: all the source files.

Installation

You just need to install R and the required packages:

1. Install the R language
2. Download this project from GitHub and unzip.
3. Install the required packages:
   1. Open the R console.
   2. Set the current directory as the working directory, using setwd("<my directory>").
   3. Run the install script src/install.R.

Use

In order to load the tables and generate the description files:

1. Open the R console.
2. Set the project root as the working directory, using setwd again.
3. Launch the src/main.R script, and the files will be generated in the out folder.

Dependencies

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Todo

• Update the data link after the end of the embargo.
• Update HAL reference of the report.

References

• [LFM'20] V. Labatut, N. Févrat & G. Marrel, BRÉF – Base de données Révisée des Élu·es de France, Technical Report, Avignon Université, 2020. ⟨hal-02886580⟩