R: Bayesian "Now-Cast" Estimation of Event Probabilities in Multi-Party Democracies

# Bayesian "Now-Cast" Estimation of Event Probabilities in Multi-Party Democracies

## Documentation for package ‘coalitions’ version 0.6.24

- DESCRIPTION file.
- Package NEWS.

## Help Pages

calculate_prob | Calculate coalition probability from majority table
calculate_probs | Calculate coalition probabilities for multiple coalitions
collapse_parties | Transform surveys in long format
dHondt | Seat Distribution by D'Hondt
draw_from_posterior | Draw random numbers from posterior distribution
get_latest | Scrape surveys from all pollsters
get_probabilities | Wrapper for calculation of coalition probabilities from survey
get_seats | Calculate seat distribution from draws from posterior
get_surveys | Scrape surveys from all pollsters
get_surveys_brb | Scrape surveys from all pollsters
get_surveys_by | Scrape surveys from all pollsters
get_surveys_nds | Scrape surveys from all pollsters
get_surveys_rp | Scrape surveys from all pollsters
get_surveys_saxony | Scrape surveys from all pollsters
get_surveys_thuringen | Scrape surveys from all pollsters
gg_survey | Plot voter shares observed in one survey
hare_niemeyer | Seat Distribution by Hare/Niemeyer
have_majority | Do coalitions have a majority
party_colors_de | Colors for German parties
party_labels_de | Labels for German parties
pool_surveys | Obtain pooled survey during specified period
redistribute | Calculate percentage of votes/seats after excluding parties with 'votes < hurdle'
scrape_austria | Import Austrian survey results
scrape_by | Scrape surveys for German general election
scrape_ltw | Scrape surveys for German general election
scrape_rp | Scrape surveys for German general election
scrape_wahlrecht | Scrape surveys for German general election
sls | Seat Distribution by Sainte-Lague/Schepers
surveys_sample | Sample of selected surveys
try_readHTML | Try call of read_html that throws an error if the url cannot be resolved