summary.rollcall {pscl} | R Documentation |
summarize a rollcall object
Description
Provides a summary of the information about votes, legislators, etc in
a rollcall
object.
Usage
## S3 method for class 'rollcall':
summary(object,
dropList=NULL,
verbose=FALSE,debug=FALSE,...)
## S3 method for class 'summary.rollcall':
print(x, digits=1, ...)
Arguments
object |
an rollcall object. |
dropList |
a list or alist , listing voting
decisions, legislators and/or votes to be dropped
from the summary; see dropRollCall for details. |
verbose |
logical, if TRUE , compute legislator-specific
and vote-specific Yea/Nay/NA summaries |
debug |
logical, if TRUE , print messages to console during
processing of the rollcall object |
x |
an object of class summary.rollcall |
digits |
number of decimal places in printed display |
... |
further arguments passed to or from other methods. |
Value
An object of class summary.rollcall
with the following elements
(depending on the logical flag verbose
):
n |
number of legislators in the rollcall object,
after processing the dropList |
m |
number of roll call votes in the rollcall
object, after processing the dropList |
codes |
a list that describes how the voting
decisions in the rollcall matrix (object$votes )
map into “Yea” and “Nay” etc, after processing the
dropList ; see rollcall for more details |
allVotes |
a matrix containing a tabular breakdown of all votes
in the rollcall matrix (object$votes ), after
processing the dropList |
partyTab |
a tabular breakdown of the legislators' party
affiliations, after processing the dropList , and only if
party affiliations are supplied asobject$legis.data$party ;
see rollcall for details |
lopSided |
a tabular summary of the frequency of lop-sided roll
call votes in the rollcall object, again, after
processing the dropList |
legisTab |
a tabular summary of each legislators' voting
history |
partyLoyalty |
the proportion of times that each legislator
votes the way that a majority of his or her fellow partisans did,
provided party affiliations are available |
voteTab |
a tabular summary of each rollcall's votes |
call |
the matched call used to invoke
summary.rollcall |
See Also
rollcall
Examples
set.seed(314159265)
fakeData <- matrix(sample(x=c(0,1),size=1000,replace=TRUE),
10,100)
rc <- rollcall(fakeData)
rc
data(sc9497)
rc <- rollcall(sc9497)
summary(rc)
data(s109)
summary(s109)
summary(s109,verbose=TRUE)
[Package
pscl version 1.03
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