The TrumpLies package makes available in R the database of false
claims by Donald Trump from 2017-2018 compiled by Daniel Dale at The
Toronto Star. While largely of historical interest, there may still be
some use for this in analysis and for data visualization.
This package is presently maintained in on Github, pending public release. You can install the package via:
# install.packages(c("devtools", "remotes"))
remotes::install_github("friendly/TrumpLies")This package is released under the Creative Commons CC BY-NC-SA license. This means that appropriate credit for use must be given and it cannot be used for commercial purposes.
See citation("TrumpLies") for an appropriate citation for the package.
In addition, graphs or tables published from this should cite the source
of the data as Data source: Daniel Dale, The Toronto Star.
This is a basic example showing a simple histogram of frequencies of
Trump lies by month using ggplot2:
## basic example code
library(TrumpLies)
library(ggplot2)
#> Warning: package 'ggplot2' was built under R version 4.4.3
library(scales)
data(TrumpLies)
ggplot(TrumpLies, aes(x=date)) +
geom_histogram(binwidth=20, colour="black", fill="lightblue") +
scale_x_date(labels = scales::date_format("%Y-%m"),
breaks = seq(min(TrumpLies$date)-5, max(TrumpLies$date)+5, 30)) +
ylab("Number of False Claims") +
xlab("Year and Month") +
theme_bw() +
theme(axis.text.x = element_text(angle=45, vjust = 1, hjust=1))
Here is an neat animation by Jelle Geertsma tracking the topics of Trump’s false claims over time.
