fivethirtyeightdata: Data and Code Behind the Stories and Interactives at 'FiveThirtyEight'

An add-on R data package that contains the large datasets not found in the original fivethirtyeight package via a drat repository https://github.com/fivethirtyeightdata/drat published by FiveThirtyEight https://github.com/fivethirtyeight/data. Note that while we received guidance from editors at 538, this package is not officially published by 538. Contribute to this package at https://github.com/fivethirtyeightdata/fivethirtyeightdata.

Examples

# Example usage:
library(fivethirtyeightdata)
head(senators)
#> # A tibble: 6 × 10
#>   created_at          user         text  url   replies retweets favorites bioguide_id
#>   <dttm>              <chr>        <chr> <chr>   <dbl>    <dbl>     <dbl> <chr>      
#> 1 2017-10-19 21:47:00 amyklobuchar We r… http…      21      129       533 K000367    
#> 2 2017-10-19 18:48:00 amyklobuchar I sp… http…       8       46       150 K000367    
#> 3 2017-10-19 18:14:00 amyklobuchar Lots… http…      36      227       932 K000367    
#> 4 2017-10-19 18:04:00 amyklobuchar Toda… http…      17      167       550 K000367    
#> 5 2017-10-19 16:33:00 amyklobuchar .@Ma… http…      31      279       893 K000367    
#> 6 2017-10-19 15:14:00 amyklobuchar Grea… http…       9       37       221 K000367    
#> # … with 2 more variables: party <fct>, state <fct>

# All information about any data set can be found in the help file:
?senators

# To view a list of all data sets:
data(package = "fivethirtyeightdata")