partycodes               package:pscl               R Documentation

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_D_e_s_c_r_i_p_t_i_o_n:

     Numeric codes and names of 85 political parties appearing in Poole
     and Rosenthal's collection of U.S. Congressional roll calls.

_U_s_a_g_e:

     data(partycodes)

_F_o_r_m_a_t:


   '_c_o_d_e' integer, numeric code for legislatorappearing in Poole and
        Rosenthal rollcall data files

   '_p_a_r_t_y' character, name of party

_D_e_t_a_i_l_s:

     The function 'readKH' converts the integer codes into strings, via
     a table lookup in this data frame.

_S_o_u_r_c_e:

     Keith Poole's website: <URL: http://voteview.com/party3.dat>

_S_e_e _A_l_s_o:

     'readKH'

