About

This is a small R data package with the manifestos of parties competing for the 2021 federal election in Germany. The package includes a raw data format with the text extracted from the original pdf documents (using pdftools) and somewhat purged versions.

Installation

This is a GitHub-only package install it using the remotes package.

remotes::install_github("ablaette/btw2021")

Testload the package.

library(btw2021)

Using the data

Raw text extracted from the pdf documents is incluced as the data object manifestos2021 will be available:

length(manifestos2021)
names(manifestos2021)

To access the raw, unprocessed text of the manifesto of parties:

afd <- manifestos2021[["AfD"]]
spd <- manifestos2021[["SPD"]]
cducsu <- manifestos2021[["CDU-CSU"]]

Purged versions of the documents are available as distinct list objects with the text:

afd2021
cdu_csu2021
fdp2021
gruene2021
linke2021
spd2021

Acknowledgements

This package has evolved from a course on scientific programming I (Anreas Blaette) taught in the summer term 2021 at the University of Duisburg-Essen. A special thanks goes to Alexandra Naumann who has prepared the purged versions of the manifestos.