Package: gerda
Title: German Election Database (GERDA)
Version: 0.5.0
Author: Hanno Hilbig [aut, cre] (ORCID:
    <https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5849-9172>)
Authors@R: 
    person("Hanno", "Hilbig", , "hhilbig@ucdavis.edu", role = c("aut", "cre"),
           comment = c(ORCID = "0000-0001-5849-9172"))
Description: Provides tools to download comprehensive datasets of local,
    state, and federal election results in Germany from 1990 to 2025. The package
    facilitates access to data on turnout, vote shares for major parties, and
    demographic information across different levels of government (municipal, state,
    and federal). It offers access to geographically harmonized datasets
    that account for changes in municipal boundaries over time and incorporate
    mail-in voting districts. Includes bundled county-level covariates from INKAR
    and municipality-level Census 2022 data.
    Users can easily retrieve, clean, and standardize German electoral data,
    making it ready for analysis. Data is sourced from
    <https://github.com/awiedem/german_election_data>.
License: MIT + file LICENSE
Encoding: UTF-8
RoxygenNote: 7.3.3
Depends: R (>= 3.5.0)
Imports: dplyr, knitr, readr, stats, stringdist, tibble
Suggests: rmarkdown, testthat (>= 3.0.0)
Config/testthat/edition: 3
URL: https://github.com/hhilbig/gerda,
        https://github.com/awiedem/german_election_data
BugReports: https://github.com/hhilbig/gerda/issues
VignetteBuilder: knitr
Maintainer: Hanno Hilbig <hhilbig@ucdavis.edu>
NeedsCompilation: no
Packaged: 2026-01-31 19:16:11 UTC; hanno
Repository: CRAN
Date/Publication: 2026-01-31 21:40:08 UTC
Built: R 4.4.3; ; 2026-02-04 04:59:17 UTC; windows
