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Quantitatively Analyze Minor Political Parties

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install.packages("minorparties")
CRAN 30-day downloads, method
243−5.8% down on the 30 days before, the worse direction
Test coverage, method
85%of lines run by tests

Tools for calculating I-Scores, a simple way to measure how successful minor political parties are at influencing the major parties in their environment.

Full description

Tools for calculating I-Scores, a simple way to measure how successful minor political parties are at influencing the major parties in their environment. I-Scores are designed to be a more comprehensive measurement of minor party success than vote share and legislative seats won, the current standard measurements, which do not reflect the strategies that most minor parties employ. The procedure leverages the Manifesto Project's NLP model to identify the issue areas that sentences discuss, see Burst et al. (2024) <doi:10.25522/manifesto.manifestoberta.56topics.context.2024.1.1>, and the Wordfish algorithm to estimate the relative positions that platforms take on those issue areas, see Slapin and Proksch (2008) <doi:10.1111/j.1540-5907.2008.00338.x>.

Maintainer
Theodore Gercken
Licence
GPL (>= 3)
Latest release
29 Oct 2025
First release
29 Oct 2025

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Releases
1
Needs compilation
No
Needs R
>= 4.1.0
Config/testthat/edition
3
LazyData
true
RoxygenNote
7.3.3
Subjects (1) Method, Subjects
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Gercken, T. (2025). minorparties: Quantitatively Analyze Minor Political Parties (Version 1.0.0) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.minorparties
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APA
Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for minorparties version 1.0.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-26. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040
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Total downloads in the last 30 days
247−11.8% down on the 30 days before, the worse directionIt is the sum of 3 channels: CRAN, r2u and autoCRAN.

CRAN rank

18,548 of 26,529

CRAN

243 downloads in the last 30 days

Rank
18,548 of 26,529
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Needs
12
Dependent packages
0
Suggested by
0
Needs (12)
Installing it adds
45 packages, 42.7 MB of source
Of those, need compilation
29
Optional extras (2)
Functions
8
Public exports
4
Lines of R code
856
Median complexity
7
Functions (8)
Size and composition

Lines by kind (1,277)

KindLinesShare
R code85667%
Tests16513%
Documentation25620%

Lines by language

LanguageLinesShare
R1,02180%
Rd25620%

Languages are counted from file extensions.

Files
26
R functions
8
Complexity
Median
7
Mean
8.13
Highest
18
Median lines per function
67.5
About complexity

Cyclomatic complexity counts the independent paths through a function: 1 is a straight line, higher is harder to test. R functions only.

Call graph figures
R functions
8
Calls
7
Unconnected
1
Groups
1

The tests ran and coverage was measured.

Lines run by tests
85.2%
Expressions run by tests
86.6%
Test cases
8
Exports named in tests
100%
Coverage by file (6)
Coverage run
Lines counted
562
Lines the tests ran
479
Tests passed
Yes
Measured with
covr 3.6.5 on R 4.6.1
Test suite
Has tests
Yes
Test frameworks
testthat
Test cases
8
Lines of tests
165
Test lines per line of code
0.19
Exports documented
100%
Arguments documented
100%
Return value documented
100%
Help pages with examples
50%
Examples run in checks
100%
Other documentation
README
Yes, 1,235 words
Release notes file
Yes
Help pages
6
Lines of documentation
256
DatasetSizeColumns
sample_dataSample Data53 × 4party, text, minor_party, major_party_platforms
sample_data_resultsSample Data Results13 × 3party, scores and 1 more

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Last commit
29 Oct 2025
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Commits
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Open pull requests
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Tagged releases
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Latest tagged release
v1.0.0, 29 Oct 2025
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Created
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Licence file reads as
GPL-3.0
Development practices (8)
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Docs sourceREADME.Rmd, pkgdown
GitHub Pages site last deployed 2025-10-29
The repository has a site deploy workflow
pkgdown site last built 2025-10-29
Reproducibility and dev environmentrenv
CRAN release processcran-comments.md
Lint, format, editorRStudio project

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R releases
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  • Release
VersionReleasedR
1.0.0 current29 Oct 20254.5.1
Release notes (1.0.0)
  • Initial release of the package
  • Contains the I-Score Analysis Pipeline