Scrape surveys from all pollsters — get

Given a specific date, extract the survey from this date or the last one before this date.

get_surveys(country = c("DE", "AT"))

get_surveys_by()

get_surveys_rp()

get_surveys_nds()

get_surveys_saxony()

get_surveys_brb()

get_surveys_thuringen()

get_latest(surveys = NULL, max_date = Sys.Date())

Arguments

country	Choose country from which surveys should be scraped. Currently `"DE"` (Germany) and `"AT"` (Austria) are supported.
surveys	If provided, latest survey will be obtained from this object, otherwise calls `get_surveys`.
max_date	Specifies the date, relative to which latest survey will be searched for. Defaults to `Sys.Date`.

Value

Nested tibble. When fully unnested, the dataset contains the following columns:

pollster: Character name of the polling institute.
date: Publication date of the poll.
start, end: Start and end date of the field period, i.e. the dates during which the poll was conducted.
respondents: Number of respondents in the poll.
party: Character name of an individual party.
percent: Percentage of respondents that chose the party. Given in percentage points, i.e. 38% is given as 38.
votes: Number of respondents that chose the party.

Examples

if (FALSE) {
library(coalitions)
# scrape data for the German federal election
# get_surveys()
}
library(coalitions)
### Scrape the newest poll for the German federal election
# Possibility 1: Calling get_latest without arguments scrapes surveys from the web
# Possibility 2: Use get_latest() on an already scraped dataset
surveys <- get_latest(surveys_sample)