R: political parties appearing in the U.S. Congress

partycodes {pscl} | R Documentation

## political parties appearing in the U.S. Congress

### Description

Numeric codes and names of 85 political parties appearing in Poole and Rosenthal's collection of U.S. Congressional roll calls.

### Usage

    data(partycodes)

### Format

- `code`integer, numeric code for legislatorappearing in Poole and Rosenthal rollcall data files

- `party`character, name of party

### Details

The function `readKH` converts the integer codes into strings, via a table lookup in this data frame.

### Source

Keith Poole's website: http://legacy.voteview.com/PARTY3.HTM

### See Also

`readKH`

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