ESS parties

Code and supplementary information for: Paul Bederke and Holger Döring. 2023. “Harmonizing and Linking Party Information: The ESS as an Example of Complex Data Linking.” — see manuscript

Notes

Reproducible documents created with Tidyverse-R and Quarto — see *.qmd files.

Data sets used in analysis are created with 0*.R scripts. Non-public data in folders data-raw and data not included in git repository – see data-raw_files.csv.

• 01-ess-prt-data.R based on Party Facts import
• 04-party-facts-links.R based on Party Facts tidyverse example

Required R packages in Dockerfile (install2.r section) and information of all packages used with version numbers in renv.lock.

How-to

Run all

callr::rscript("z-run-all.R", stdout="z-run-all.log")  # R console

Rscript z-run-all.R > "z-run-all.log"                  # terminal

set FULL_RECREATE = TRUE to include time intense processing

• recreate ESS rds-files from dta-sources
• calculate ESS-Parlgov government-opposition matches

Rocker container

Use Docker to run RStudio in a browser

http://localhost:8787/

docker-compose up -d  # start container in detached mode

docker-compose down   # shut down container