minorparties

1.0.0

Quantitatively Analyze Minor Political Parties

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1.6Kdownloads / year

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Overview

About

Maintained by Theodore GerckenFirst published 2025-10-291 releasesCRAN page ↗

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.

Install

R (CRAN)Ubuntu (r2u)Fedora (COPR)openSUSE (OBS)

install.packages("minorparties", repos = "https://cloud.r-project.org/")

Installs the current CRAN release. Prebuilt binaries on Windows and macOS.

Release

# enable cranapt (r2u) if it is not already set up, then install
grep -rqs r2u.stat.illinois.edu /etc/apt/sources.list /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ \
  || curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/eddelbuettel/r2u/master/inst/scripts/add_cranapt_noble.sh | sudo bash
sudo apt install -y r-cran-minorparties

Fast Ubuntu binaries via r2u (no compilation). The cranapt setup runs once and is skipped when it is already enabled.

bspm (used by r2u) also needs make: sudo apt install make

# enable the iucar/cran COPR if it is not already present, then install
ls /etc/yum.repos.d/*iucar*cran*.repo >/dev/null 2>&1 \
  || sudo dnf copr enable -y iucar/cran
sudo dnf install -y R-CRAN-minorparties

RPMs from the iucar/cran COPR, rebuilt from CRAN.

For install.packages() integration in R, also: sudo dnf install R-CoprManager

# add the autoCRAN OBS repo (Tumbleweed) if it is missing, then install
zypper -q lr | grep -qi autoCRAN \
  || sudo zypper addrepo https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/devel:/languages:/R:/autoCRAN/openSUSE_Tumbleweed/devel:languages:R:autoCRAN.repo
sudo zypper install -y R-minorparties

RPMs auto-built from CRAN on openSUSE OBS (Tumbleweed).

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 27.1 min · r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-clang

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 0.19

85.2%

Coverage · measured lines

100%

Documentation · exports

Dependencies · direct

Check history

OK2026-03-10
14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMEYes · 1,235 wordsVignettesNopkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 67% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 100%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
References docs: 0%

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Repository

GitHub ↗ gerckentheodore/minorparties

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License GPL-3.0 · 32 commits · Last activity 2025-10-29

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Dependencies

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13 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

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R >= 4.1.0

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dplyr purrr quanteda quanteda.textmodels reticulate rlang spacyrstatsstringi stringr tibble tidyr

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Theodore Gercken

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Theodore Gercken

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Theodore Gercken

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Package Timeline

1 release. R releases are shown for context.

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
1.0.0Latest
2026-03-10 · current release
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11

Package metadata

First published: 2025-10-29
Total releases: 1 / 1 yrs
License: GPL (>= 3) OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 4.1.0
Bundled data: 1.5 MB / 2 files
Download size: 1.5 MB
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