Jeremiah Cha
A simple dataset that pairs each session of the U.S. Congress with their election years. Additional variables include the start and end of the term.
Start by downloading the .csv, .dta or .rds file in this
repository. Importing the .dta format into R requires external
packages, such as
haven. The
.rds file can be read into R with the following code.
df <- readRDS("congyear.rds")Reading in the .rds file imports a tibble, which is compatible with
the tidyverse suite. A preview of the data is featured below.
library(tidyverse)
df## # A tibble: 117 x 4
## congress e_year term_start term_end
## <int> <int> <int> <int>
## 1 1 1788 1789 1791
## 2 2 1790 1791 1793
## 3 3 1792 1793 1795
## 4 4 1794 1795 1797
## 5 5 1796 1797 1799
## 6 6 1798 1799 1801
## 7 7 1800 1801 1803
## 8 8 1802 1803 1805
## 9 9 1804 1805 1807
## 10 10 1806 1807 1809
## # … with 107 more rows