germanpolls - an R package for German polling data

germanpolls is an R package for scraping Wahlrecht.de, a German website with the most comprehensive collection of polling results.

Install

install.packages("germanpolls")

devtools::install_github("cutterkom/germanpolls")

Usage

library(germanpolls)

polling_data <- germanpolls(region = "de")

Result

You get all elements from XML files in a dataframe.

Available data

Call data for regions with germanpolls(region = "de") for Germany or region = "by" for Bavaria.

You can get polling data for:

• de,Deutschland
• by,Bayern
• he,Hessen
• hb,Bremen
• ni,Niedersachsen
• sn,Sachsen
• th,Thüringen

You can't get polling data for:

• eu, European Union
• be,Berlin
• bb,Brandenburg
• bw,Baden-Württemberg
• hh,Hamburg
• mv,Mecklenburg-Vorpommern
• nw,Nordrhein-Westfalen
• rp,Rheinland-Pfalz
• sh,Schleswig-Holstein
• sl,Saarland
• st,Sachsen-Anhalt

What you get

** Caution! old version**

You get a dataframe with the following variables on the federal level:

• institute
• date
• sample size
• period
• results for parties: cdu.csu,spd,grüne,fdp,linke,afd,sonstige,nw_un,piraten,fw
• type (phone, online, unknown)

...

Better Polls

Germanpolls is a byproduct of gen-better-polls. At the GEN Hackathon at Süddeutsche Zeitung we were working on a better way to visualize polling data.

To Do

• Rename variables (parties etc)
• Document all Variables
• germanpolls_latest(): get only the last poll
• Submit to CRAN