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rOpenGov / psData

An R package to download regularly maintained political science data sets and make commonly used, but infrequently updated variables based on this data.
https://ropengov.github.io/psData/
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dat #14

Open christophergandrud opened 10 years ago

christophergandrud commented 10 years ago

Do any of you have experience with dat?

I've been trying to think about how this might relate to psData. Overall, they aim to address similar issues, with psData being a bit more focused on one type of data and usage from R.

I wonder if it is worth exploring using dat as a backend, or some other integration.

antagomir commented 10 years ago

dat looks very promising and certainly closely related but no experience so far; but psData may fill its particular niche for R/paneldata better, I think there is a genuine need for good tools on that.

christophergandrud commented 10 years ago

I think that is probably right that psData fills a particular niche.

Just thinking if there is anything to learn or even directly draw on. I especially like the data version control for third party data. Anyways, something to think about.