planscorer offers an R interface to PlanScore.org’s
API.
You can install the stable version of planscorer from CRAN with:
install.packages('planscorer')You can install the development version of planscorer from GitHub with:
# install.packages('remotes')
remotes::install_github('christopherkenny/planscorer')To use planscorer, you must have an API key from PlanScore. Otherwise, you will get a 403 forbidden error.
To get a key, follow the instructions here.
Once you have a key, use ps_set_key('your_key').
Optionally use ps_set_key('your_key', install = TRUE) to
allow your key to be available across sessions.
With a file, you can upload using the ps_upload_file()
option:
library(planscorer)
## basic example code
file <- system.file('extdata/null-plan-incumbency.geojson', package = 'planscorer')
links <- ps_upload_file(file)
#> ℹ Using single-step upload.To read the data results:
ps_ingest(links)
#> # A tibble: 2 × 62
#> district democratic_votes democratic_votes_sd democratic_wins republican_votes
#> <chr> <dbl> <dbl> <dbl> <dbl>
#> 1 1 155. 29.9 0 445.
#> 2 2 379. 29.6 0.998 221.
#> # ℹ 57 more variables: republican_votes_sd <dbl>, us_president_2016_dem <dbl>,
#> # us_president_2016_rep <dbl>, district_number <int>, polsby_popper <dbl>,
#> # reock <dbl>, declination <dbl>, declination_absolute_percent_rank <dbl>,
#> # declination_is_valid <dbl>, declination_positives <dbl>,
#> # declination_relative_percent_rank <dbl>, declination_sd <dbl>,
#> # efficiency_gap <dbl>, efficiency_gap_1_dem <dbl>,
#> # efficiency_gap_1_dem_sd <dbl>, efficiency_gap_1_rep <dbl>, …To capture the outputted figures on the site:
img <- 'man/figures/README-planscore.png'
ps_capture(links, img)
#> https://planscore.org/plan.html?temporary-bd7843f2-9dfa-4c80-9b63-3400e77dab18 screenshot completed
#> [1] "man/figures/README-planscore.png"
knitr::include_graphics(img)