Description
Load Associated Press Election Results with Elex.
Description
Provides R access to election results data. Wraps elex (https://github.com/newsdev/elex/), a Python package and command line tool for fetching and parsing Associated Press election results.
README.md
elexr
Simple R wrapper around elex for loading Associated Press elections results.
Assumptions
- Associated Press Elections API key
- elex
devtoolsR package
Installation
First, install elex, following these instructions.
Then use devtools to install this from GitHub:
> library(devtools)
> install_github("ghing/elexr")
Usage
> library(elexr)
> Sys.setenv(AP_API_KEY = "YOUR_AP_API_KEY")
> iowa_caucus_results <- results('02-01-2016')