Load Associated Press Election Results with Elex

Provides R access to election results data. Wraps elex ( https://github.com/newsdev/elex/), a Python package and command line tool for fetching and parsing Associated Press election results.

elexr

Simple R wrapper around elex for loading Associated Press elections results.

Assumptions

• Associated Press Elections API key
• elex
• devtools R package

Installation

First, install elex, following these instructions.

Then use devtools to install this from GitHub:

> library(devtools)
> install_github("ghing/elexr")

Usage

> library(elexr)
> Sys.setenv(AP_API_KEY = "YOUR_AP_API_KEY")
> iowa_caucus_results <- results('02-01-2016')