germanpolls - an R package for German polling data

germanpolls is an R package for scraping Wahlrecht.de, a German website with the most comprehensive collection of polling results.

Install

install.packages("germanpolls")

devtools::install_github("cutterkom/germanpolls")

Usage

library(germanpolls)

polling_data <- germanpolls(region = "de")

Result

You get all elements from XML files in a dataframe.

Available data

Call data for regions with germanpolls(region = "de") for Germany or region = "by" for Bavaria.

You can get polling data for:

de,Deutschland
by,Bayern
he,Hessen
hb,Bremen
ni,Niedersachsen
sn,Sachsen
th,Thüringen

You can't get polling data for:

eu, European Union
be,Berlin
bb,Brandenburg
bw,Baden-Württemberg
hh,Hamburg
mv,Mecklenburg-Vorpommern
nw,Nordrhein-Westfalen
rp,Rheinland-Pfalz
sh,Schleswig-Holstein
sl,Saarland
st,Sachsen-Anhalt

What you get

** Caution! old version**

You get a dataframe with the following variables on the federal level:

institute
date
sample size
period
results for parties: cdu.csu,spd,grüne,fdp,linke,afd,sonstige,nw_un,piraten,fw
type (phone, online, unknown)

...

Better Polls

Germanpolls is a byproduct of gen-better-polls. At the GEN Hackathon at Süddeutsche Zeitung we were working on a better way to visualize polling data.

To Do

Rename variables (parties etc)
Document all Variables
germanpolls_latest(): get only the last poll
Submit to CRAN

cutterkom/germanpolls